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electromaq First Post Posted on: 01-02-11 06:41 PM
Lacking symbols
im working on a Spanish Translation wich is almost finished\ \ but im having problems in the way of symbols present on ASCII but replaced on the website.\ \ for example "¡" "¿" "ó"\ \ to be more specific if while making an item description you put \ \ ¡OFERTÓN!\ it comes out\ ¡OFERTÓN!\ \ is there any way to fix this or there is a fix for this already?\ \ thx
mewsoft Reply #: 1 Posted on: 01-03-11 01:25 AM
Re: Lacking symbols

You may  need to use the correct code page or html endcoding, your header class should be modified to show the Spanish language like using the meta tag  and the language tag like this in the first line in the header.

So your header should be something like this which is for Arabic (ar) language:


Code: HTML
<br /><br />&lt;HTML dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;ar&quot;&gt;</p><p>&lt;html&gt;<br />&lt;head&gt;<br />&lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Language&quot; content=&quot;ar&quot;&gt;<br />&lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=windows-1256&quot;&gt;<br />

You need to set the language name and charset in the code above to your language


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electromaq Reply #: 2 Posted on: 01-06-11 12:18 AM
Re: Lacking symbols
ok, im assuming i got to put "sp" there but it doesnt work.
mewsoft Reply #: 3 Posted on: 01-06-11 02:43 AM
Re: Lacking symbols
Anyway this is an html encoding issue, either you need to do as I said above or you need your browser support this coding page. Try to create a static html page say text.html and put your text in it and upload it to your server and test it to see that your server and your browser supports this code page encoding.

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electromaq Reply #: 4 Posted on: 01-07-11 10:00 AM
Re: Lacking symbols
i`ve got other websites runing on the same server without this problem, also i installed a forum on a sidepage to Auctionawy and i can use this symbols on the forums.\ \ i tryed what you said before but im probably doing something wrong, if you can seend me the exact code or mark the parts i need to modify that`ll be great. The website looks really ugly and unfinished with those characters changed for other random ones.
mewsoft Reply #: 5 Posted on: 01-08-11 07:38 AM
Re: Lacking symbols
May be you typed this text with worng encoding, try to reneter this text again using Internet Explorer, also you may try to use MS Frontpage to make/convert your text unicode in the form &xxxx;.

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electromaq Reply #: 6 Posted on: 01-08-11 09:11 AM
Re: Lacking symbols
the problem is everywhere, as seen in this link\ http://www.aquivendes.com.ar/cgi-local/auction/auction.cgi?action=ViewItem&ID=1183417245&Lang=Espanol\ \ even the description entered by the users show the characters changed.
mewsoft Reply #: 7 Posted on: 01-08-11 11:51 AM
Re: Lacking symbols
Your header seems not formated, since your other installation is working fine, just copy the Header class to your new installation.

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electromaq Reply #: 8 Posted on: 01-08-11 01:02 PM
Re: Lacking symbols
my other websites are plain html, except for a PHP one, i`ll love if you could just post here the code i need to paste.
mewsoft Reply #: 9 Posted on: 01-08-11 01:57 PM
Re: Lacking symbols
Try to reinstall or install a new version on another folder and test. As I said above since your forums is working, compare the class header code and make your corrections.

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electromaq Reply #: 10 Posted on: 01-08-11 05:33 PM
Re: Lacking symbols
is there any way to enable it to use all characters in ASCII like it should do from the begining?
electromaq Reply #: 11 Posted on: 01-11-11 04:33 PM
Re: Lacking symbols
ok, this is the header modification i used, in case someone else got the same problem\ \
Code: HTML
<HTML dir="rtl" lang="es"></p><html><br /><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="es"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

\ \ this might help out on other languages\ \
Code: HTML
 Language      charset \
 Afrikaans (af)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Albanian (sq)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Arabic (ar)              iso-8859-6 \
 Basque (eu)              iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Bulgarian (bg)      iso-8859-5 \
 Byelorussian (be)      iso-8859-5 \
 Catalan (ca)              iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Croatian (hr)      iso-8859-2, windows-1250\
 Czech (cs)              iso-8859-2 \
 Danish (da)               iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Dutch (nl)            iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 English (en)       iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Esperanto (eo)      iso-8859-3* \
 Estonian (et)      iso-8859-15 \
 Faroese (fo)       iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Finnish (fi)       iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 French (fr)        iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Galician (gl)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 German (de)        iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Greek (el)         iso-8859-7 \
 Hebrew (iw)        iso-8859-8 \
 Hungarian (hu)      iso-8859-2 \
 Icelandic (is)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Inuit (Eskimo)languages      iso-8859-10* \
 Irish (ga)              iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Italian (it)       iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Japanese(ja) shift_jis, iso-2022-jp, euc-jp \
Korean (ko)euc-kr Lapp     iso-8859-10* **\
 Latvian (lv)       iso-8859-13, windows-1257 \
 Lithuanian (lt)      iso-8859-13, windows-1257 \
 Macedonian (mk)      iso-8859-5, windows-1251\
 Maltese (mt)       iso-8859-3* \
 Norwegian (no)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Polish (pl)        iso-8859-2 \
 Portuguese (pt)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Romanian (ro)      iso-8859-2 \
 Russian (ru)      koi8-r, iso-8859-5 \
 Scottish (gd)      iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Serbian (sr) cyrillic     windows-1251, iso-8859-5*** \
 Serbian (sr) latin     iso-8859-2, windows-1250 \
 Slovak (sk)        iso-8859-2 \
 Slovenian (sl)      iso-8859-2, windows-1250\
 Spanish (es)       iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Swedish (sv)       iso-8859-1, windows-1252 \
 Turkish (tr)       iso-8859-9, windows-1254 \
 Ukrainian (uk)      iso-8859-5   

mewsoft Reply #: 12 Posted on: 01-11-11 05:56 PM
Re: Lacking symbols
"rtl" means right-to-left like Arabic language, so I think you need to replace it n your header with "ltr" which means left-to-right like English.

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electromaq Reply #: 13 Posted on: 01-11-11 05:58 PM
Re: Lacking symbols
thx, im learning this on the run