aMule Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

We're back! (IN POG FORM)

Author Topic: Problems with locales in the new server?  (Read 8601 times)

Ramiro

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Karma: 1
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 71
Problems with locales in the new server?
« on: February 23, 2006, 01:08:50 PM »

Accented vocals do not work.
Logged

lionel77

  • Provider of Mac builds, Forum Mod
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 4
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1107
  • Mac OS X 10.4 (Power Mac G5)
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2006, 10:16:54 PM »

Same here. None of the browsers I have installed on my machine (Safari, Camino, Firefox, Opera, Shiira) handles special characters (like german umlauts) properly since the server switch. This guy on the german forum apparently has the same problem.


Edit:
I should have added that this concerns only posts that were created after the server switch, umlauts in older postings are displayed just fine.
« Last Edit: February 26, 2006, 10:29:33 PM by lionel77 »
Logged
Current aMule CVS builds for OS X can be found here.

Gerd78

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 9
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 681
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2006, 11:29:17 PM »

Confirming (Firefox 1.5.0.1).

I believe the problem is that the browsers think it's UTF-8 although it's actually some sort of Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1 or windows-1252 or whatever). It must be a problem with the new server: The HTTP header says "UTF-8" and the HTML source says "windows-1252". But the "real" HTTP header has a higher priority than the "http-equiv".

If I download the pages with wget and read them locally, there's no problem at all which is quite clear because there's no HTTP header anymore. So the identification in the HTTP header and the actual encoding must match, either by changing the HTTP header to windows-1252 or by converting the whole forum to UTF-8.

As a temporary solution, you can force a different encoding in your browser. It's under the "View" menu in Firefox. Try "Western (ISO-8859-1)", "Western (ISO-8859-15)" or "Western (Windows-1252)".
Logged

lionel77

  • Provider of Mac builds, Forum Mod
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 4
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1107
  • Mac OS X 10.4 (Power Mac G5)
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2006, 11:38:11 PM »

Thanks for the detailed analysis, Gerd78.

Quote
Originally posted by Gerd78
As a temporary solution, you can force a different encoding in your browser. It's under the "View" menu in Firefox. Try "Western (ISO-8859-1)", "Western (ISO-8859-15)" or "Western (Windows-1252)".
Yeah, that was the first thing I tried. However, none of the encodings I chose worked (including the ones you listed).
Logged
Current aMule CVS builds for OS X can be found here.

Gerd78

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 9
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 681
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2006, 12:14:33 AM »

Strange. It works here with both Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Opera 9.00 Preview 2.
Logged

Kry

  • Ex-developer
  • Retired admin
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: -665
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5795
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2006, 06:51:25 AM »

Forum help
Questions about our board, NOT ABOUT AMULE
Logged

stefanero

  • Some Support
  • Developer
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 8
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4235
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2006, 08:46:32 AM »

hum? this was a problem about the board kry  :]
Logged
In its default setup, Windows XP on the Internet amounts to a car
parked in a bad part of town, with the doors unlocked, the key in
the ignition and a Post-It note on the dashboard saying, "Please
don't steal this."

Kry

  • Ex-developer
  • Retired admin
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: -665
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5795
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2006, 09:33:29 PM »

Woops.
Logged

Kry

  • Ex-developer
  • Retired admin
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: -665
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5795
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2006, 08:15:26 AM »

ñañañaña
Logged

Kry

  • Ex-developer
  • Retired admin
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: -665
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5795
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2006, 08:19:47 AM »

ñe! ñe!
Logged

Kry

  • Ex-developer
  • Retired admin
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: -665
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5795
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2006, 08:19:54 AM »

Fixed
Logged

stefanero

  • Some Support
  • Developer
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 8
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4235
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2006, 08:32:05 AM »

ääääääääää
Logged
In its default setup, Windows XP on the Internet amounts to a car
parked in a bad part of town, with the doors unlocked, the key in
the ignition and a Post-It note on the dashboard saying, "Please
don't steal this."

stefanero

  • Some Support
  • Developer
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: 8
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4235
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2006, 08:32:18 AM »

yup  :D
Logged
In its default setup, Windows XP on the Internet amounts to a car
parked in a bad part of town, with the doors unlocked, the key in
the ignition and a Post-It note on the dashboard saying, "Please
don't steal this."

Kry

  • Ex-developer
  • Retired admin
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Karma: -665
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5795
Re: Problems with locales in the new server?
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2006, 08:39:19 AM »

You just don't wanna know how I fixed it. let's just pretend I broke nothing.
Logged