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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Hello István,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thank you for that quick reply. I didn’t expect to get an answer today :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I payed attention to the charset enconding during installation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The default charset ist utf8_general_ci and all tables are in that charset, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I used vtiger_CRM_Database_UTF8Config.pdf from the vtiger-homepage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I checked it again after reading your mail and everything looks good.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The problem is not that all ‘strange characters’ are displayed wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>They displayed correctly everywhere in vtiger but in the moment when I select a person from the list which has a special character in its name it is shown wrong until I save.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>When I then save and look at the invoice again, it is correct. It just doesn’t look nice until I save.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Please try it and I’m, sure you’ll see what I mean.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>If you want, I can give you more screenshots with the complete workflow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Maybe I did something wrong on some other place? Apache, php or browser-configuration?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>If you have any other ideas, please let me know and I will check my config.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Alexander Gabriel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>__________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear Gabriel,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It is a typical error when charset encoding is not set correctly during <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the install. *_It is not a vtiger bug_*.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Please check first in the phpmyadmin the database charset. The default <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>sql chartset is latin1_swedish_ci .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It is not too good if you would like to use all German Characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The best choice is utf8_general_ci (it will handle all öüóo"úéáu"í <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>ÖÜÓO"ÚÉÁU"Í äÄ ß ? ? ? ? í Í s, t, r( etc. - even the all Central and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>East European characters )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>1. You should reinstall all vtiger instance using the right utf8 sql <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>database in the background.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>2. If it need you should convert all language files for the German <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>localization from iso-8859-1 to the utf8 (without boom). The Notepad++ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>program is very good for this purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>3. Use UTF-8 charset in importing - exporting data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It works even for the Hungarian vtiger (and we have a little bit more <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>strange characters then you) :-) .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Cheers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Holbok István<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>telefon: +3670-342-0900<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>e-mail: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://lists.vtigercrm.com/mailman/listinfo/vtigercrm-developers"><span lang=EN-US>holbok at gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <mailto:</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://lists.vtigercrm.com/mailman/listinfo/vtigercrm-developers"><span lang=EN-US>holbok at gmail.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>**Hungary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Alexander Gabriel [mailto:alexander.gabriel@digital-infinity.de] <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011 21:42<br><b>An:</b> 'vtigercrm-developers@lists.vtigercrm.com'<br><b>Betreff:</b> Bug with german "Umlaut" in Contact or Company-Names<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’m new to vtiger and this is my first mail to this list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I hope, this is the correct list for my mail </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I found a small Bug in vTiger an thought, you should know about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If you have a contact or a company-name with german special characters (öäüÖÄÜß), they are not shown correctly after selecting a contact to add it do an invoice for example (Screenshot1_Umlaut.png).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This is because the decode_html function is not aware of different charsets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I think, it is with all special characters in other languages, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here’s a patch for this problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>After changing that line, the special characters are displayed correctly (Screenshot2_Umlaut.png)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alexander Gabriel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>