bridge not working with accented user names

Started by krick, January 19, 2009, 01:05:04 PM

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krick

I have a user that has an accented character in their login name.

When I view the forum using the direct URL to SMF, it displays fine...



However, if I access the forum using the bridge url, it displays incorrectly...




Orstio

What character set are you using for Mambo?

What character set are you using for SMF?

krick

Mambo is using UTF-8...

$mosConfig_lang = 'english';
$mosConfig_locale = 'en';
$mosConfig_charset = 'utf-8';


I'm using whatever the default SMF 1.1.7 settings are, which I'm guessing are probably not UTF-8....

$language = 'english';      # The default language file set for the forum.

Orstio

It's in your SMF HTML header output:

var smf_charset = "ISO-8859-1";

krick

Why did I not have any problems with this issue when I was using  Joomla + SMF + joomlahacks bridge?

Is the default Joomla 1.0.15 installation not UTF-8 or something?

I know that I installed SMF exactly the same way using the same default English character set.

Orstio


krick

That's what I figured.

Ok, so I'm guessing that if I convert SMF to UTF-8 and install the English UTF-8 character set package, the problem will go away.

However, I'm a little unsure about converting SMF to UTF-8.  If I do this, will it cause problems if I decide I want to migrate my forum to another package like vBulletin or phpBB in the future?

Sarge

Quote from: krick on January 19, 2009, 07:35:48 PM
However, I'm a little unsure about converting SMF to UTF-8.  If I do this, will it cause problems if I decide I want to migrate my forum to another package like vBulletin or phpBB in the future?

Sorry, you have to ask at the vBulletin and phpBB sites about that. :) We have no control over conversion scripts (and their limitations) that other forum software use.

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