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Topic: utf-8 uppgrade of version problem

Posted By: drcrazy
Subject: utf-8 uppgrade of version problem
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 8:21am

I have an old version of WebWix 7.6. I have upgraded to the latest version, Now I have a problem with the special characters å, ä, ö (Swedish). The characters in the forum look very funny.

I have the old forum still running in another place on my server. The old forum works perfectly but when I moved the files to another place and upgraded it messed up the characters.

Could it be the FTP software that messed it up? I changed the FTP software so that it makes the transfer in utf-8 but still I have a problem.

http://www.szk.nu/forum" rel="nofollow - http://www.szk.nu/forum (new)

http://www.sxk.nu/index/f/default.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.sxk.nu/index/f/default.asp (old)

Please check the strange characters in the new forum

Any idea what to do?

Henry

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 9:18am

Sorry the link was wrong

http://www.szk.nu/index/f/default.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.szk.nu/index/f/default.asp

/Henry

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 11:13am

I was unable to loom at both your forums but it sounds like an encoding issue.

You need to open in a text editor the file includes/setup_options_inc.asp and change the page encoding near the bottom of the file to one that works with your character set.

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 11:30am

Ok

I am right now transferring the files from the server to my laptop and back again to another space at the server. I will try to update again from my PC and a software for PC. The last time I did it from my MAC and maybe some communication problems occured.... I dont lnow.

If I get it to work...I will tell you otherwise I will try the thing you wrote above...Thanks anyway.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 12:01pm

The problem you have is a common issue and the reply I gave before WILL fix the issue for you.

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 12:24pm

Hmm...I really dont know what to change in the code.

'Unicode UTF-8
Const strPageEncoding = "utf-8"

'Western European ISO
'Const strPageEncoding = "iso-8859-1"

I am located in Sweden and both of these codes are in that file. What should I change?

/Henry

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 12:28pm

Please check my forum at http://www.szk.nu/forum

The characters are still messed up...

/Henry

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Henry Lindholm, Sweden

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 12:40pm

Change these two lines to the following:-

'Unicode UTF-8
'Const strPageEncoding = "utf-8"

'Western European ISO
Const strPageEncoding = "iso-8859-1"

That will change it to the ISO-8859-1 page encoding which should work with Sweedish as I beleive other Sweedish sites use this page encoding.

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 1:20pm

Hi again

These lines are already written in the file you mentioned. So..I dont know what to change becuse its already there.

Shall I change some other files because when I checked the source code in default.asp I saw that : charset "utf-8" was written.

Excuse me for the bad knowledge I have in this matter.

/Henry

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 1:28pm

This is the top of the default.asp or the login page for the forum

charset=utf-8" ????

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" rel="nofollow - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd ">
<html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" rel="nofollow - http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml " dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Svenska Zündapp Klubben - Powered by Web Wiz Forums™</title>
<meta name="generator" content="Web Wiz Forums" />
<meta name="description" content="This is a discussion forum powered by Web Wiz Forums. To find out about Web Wiz Forums, go to http://www.webwizforums.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.webwizforums.com " />
<meta name="keywords" content="forum, bbs, discussion, bulletin board, message board" />

/Henry

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 2:11pm

OK...now I see...the changes you did in the two lines. I will try that tonight when I have the time. Thanks again.

/Henry

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 3:55pm

The changes are simply to uncomment one line and comment the other.

In ASP the single quote mark which I had in red is how you comment a line eg:-


'Line with comment

Line without comment

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 21 October 2009 at 5:22pm

Thanks..now it´s working.

By the way. The mass e-mail function is gone in the new version. Or...am I blind?
Is there a way to recover that because that was very good.

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Henry Lindholm, Sweden

Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:03am

Hmm..another question. How can I fix the same problem in NewsPad?

/Henry

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Henry Lindholm, Sweden

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:30am

In NewsPad I believe it is in the file includes/browser_page_encoding_inc.asp

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Posted By: drcrazy
Date Posted: 22 October 2009 at 9:46am

Very much thanks....great support...

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