UTF-8 Issue on Send with Persian Nuke Version 01.03.01

Newbie Joined: May 02, 2008 Posts: 4

Hi!
I'm from Norway, and have problems with norwegian characters in the topic field. I have changed from ISO to UTF-8 in functions.php, but it still shows some strange characters.

Any help?? Smile

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 375

What encoding does your database use?

Newbie Joined: Nov 03, 2007 Posts: 127

This gives correct topic in Swedish with non-ascii letters like åäö.

Open in modules/HTML_Newsletter/admin/admin_send_mail.php in a decent texteditor like Crimson.

At top of this file and immediately after the first line:
<?php
Add this line:
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

Save the file and upload it.

Newbie Joined: May 02, 2008 Posts: 4

My database use UTF-8...I think Rolling Eyes

I've updatet admin_send_mail.php, but it dowsn't help...
I use the version which comes with RavenNuke v2.30. I think it is the HTML-Newsletter v1.3...

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1281

Definitely do not add the header() code at the top of this script as that is already taken care of by RavenNuke.

Unfortunately, RavenNuke, and this module, is not UTF-8 compliant.

What do you have for your _CHARSET that is defined within language/lang-?????.php file?

Newbie Joined: May 02, 2008 Posts: 4

OK. I've removed the header-code...

In the language file, it was defined ISO-8859-1. I changed it to UTF-8. but it didn't help....

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 375

Make sure you know what character set your database is using before you go any further or you will just end up running around in circles with this. You will never get a square pin to fit in a round hole if that hole is really a triangle Smile

Newbie Joined: May 02, 2008 Posts: 4

Yes, my database is UTF-8
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Smile

Newbie Joined: Nov 03, 2007 Posts: 127

My database has also charset UTF-8, BUT the tables are collationated to latin1_swedish_ci, which means that the text in the database is ISO-8859-1. ISO-8859-1 works for my site all right.

I have earlier tried to post with non-ascii text in topic, but it failed. With the header included it worked very well. I think it might be possible to change the code for Topics in admin_send_mail.php.
$msnl_sTopic = stripslashes( FixQuotes( $ftopic ) );
Maybe it can be changed so non-ascii letters are allowed?

Newbie Joined: Nov 03, 2007 Posts: 127

I have a new suggestion for fix that also works for me.

In admin_send_mail.php find this line.

$msnl_sTopic = stripslashes( FixQuotes( $ftopic ) );

Change to:

$msnl_sTopic = ( $ftopic );

stripslashes causes problem with non-ascii letters and therefore I removed it. Stripslashes un-quotes a quoted string.