cotonti.com : How to use international characters in skins?

Kort

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:31:57 -0000

Most welcome. Do not forget to share Norwegian localisation with the Cotonti community

DemptD

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:04:50 -0000

# Kort : DemptD: To avoid problems with national characters you have to make sure that:
1. All language files (main, skin, plugins) are encoded to UTF-8 (without BOM)
2. All TPL-files where you use national chars are also encoded to UTF-8 (without BOM)
I would recommend that to you do not use Notepad for encoding. Get yourself NotePad++ or some other decent text editor.

Ohh that solved it after i used Notepad++, thanks! :)

Kort

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:46:10 -0000

DemptD: To avoid problems with national characters you have to make sure that:
1. All language files (main, skin, plugins) are encoded to UTF-8 (without BOM)
2. All TPL-files where you use national chars are also encoded to UTF-8 (without BOM)
I would recommend that to you do not use Notepad for encoding. Get yourself NotePad++ or some other decent text editor.

Lombi

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:36:04 -0000

Can you give me a URL of the problem live?

Please doubleckeck that you have encoded ALL the language files correctly - the system ones, skin ones as well as the plugin ones.

DemptD

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:32:53 -0000

# Lombi : Did you encode the language files?

Yes i did, works fine now in the TPLs but not in the language files...

Lombi

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:09:31 -0000

Did you encode the language files?

DemptD

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:08:56 -0000

Thanks for all the info!

But why doesnt this work in the language files?

When i use "ÆØÅ" in the language files the layout gets all messed up in IE but looks fine in FF.

Lombi

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:45:29 -0000

Yep, as Kilandor said, you need to have all skin files encoded in UTF8. If you havent done this already you can use either of the two solutions in this topic http://www.cotonti.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=2118&n=last#bottom

DemptD

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:14:07 -0000

In admin>skin localization it is set to UTF8

Whats weird is that if i use ÆØÅ in the site and not in the TPLs it works but when i put it in the TPLs it just becomes a ?

Nevermind just had to save the actual file with that encoding

Kilandor

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:08:56 -0000

Make sure the file is UTF8

DemptD

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:23:48 -0000

Yes, i want to use norwegian characters in the TPLs, how do i do that?

Now they just show up as ?

Its these characters:

Æ
Ø
Å

Æ
Ø
Å