[opencms-dev] Solution for problem with national characters i n properties (eg. navtext)

Sat Feb 28 13:37:02 CET 2004

Hi all,

I have actually installed opencms 5.1 in a linux machine with greek encoding
and all opencms properties are working fine without changing any template.
It works either using utf-8 or iso...7

-----Original Message-----
From: Szczesniewski, Zbigniew [mailto:Zbigniew.Szczesniewski at datacom.pl] 
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:53 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Solution for problem with national characters in
properties (eg. navtext)

Hello,

I had big trouble with national characters in navtext (in polish and russian
language). I used UTF-8 default encoding, but nothing helps. 

I've found a bug and its solution.

Let's see what we have inside of template which is used for edition of
navtext, which is placed in file: /system/workplace/templates/chnav

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<WORKPLACE>
<TEMPLATE>
<![CDATA[
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=]]><METHOD
name="getEncoding"/><![CDATA[">
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="]]><method
name="resourcesUri">format.css</method><![CDATA[">
</head>
<body>
<form name="navigation" >
    <table border=2 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=430px align=center>
        <tr>
            <td>

We have here tag <FORM> without method atribute, what means: send data with
method GET. Web browser urlencodes data from form and if it is in UTF-8,
changes them! Solution is simple. Insert into tag <FORM> attribute
method=post.

Corrected tag looks like this:

<form name="navigation" method=post>
Now it is enough to correct it in all places where this problem appears and
all troubles dissapear.

Greetings  
      Zbigniew Szcześniewski

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