I am trying to set the Zend Form working for me. I am using the same form for inserting and editing a particular database object. The object has name and I can easily create a new object with the name "Ülo". It saves correctly in database and when I fetch it to display in a report then it shows correclty "Ülo". The problem is with forms. When I open the edit form then the name element is empty. All other elements are showing correctly and if I change them to have "ü" in them they are displayed empty too. The same thing is with Form element labels. When I set a label to contain "ü" it does not show the label any more.
For example if I have $name->setLabel('Nameü: '); then it does not show the label but when I change it back to $name->setLabel('Name: '); then it shows correclty.
Same thing when I have $bcrForm->name->setValue('Ülo'); it does not show the value but when I change it to $bcrForm->name->setValue('Alo'); it shows correctly.
How can I fix it to display correctly? It seems like it is some kind of form rendering issue.
This one helped solving it for me:
make sure these settings are in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php.ini:
default_charset = utf-8
Did you checked encoding? Try adding this to head...
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
make sure that both your script and view files are encoded on UTF-8 and your connection to your DB is set for UTF-8 too.
If you are using mysql you force it to return UTF-8 data by openning a DB connection and running : SET NAMES 'utf8'
or using mysqli with : mysqli_set_charset('utf8');
I would check:
view charset
database charset (backend)
Zend_Db_Adapter charset
file charset
The view escape method is set to expect utf8 chars and may strip anything else (ie. singlebyte strange chars) :)
It should be as simple as setting escape flag to false on the elements label decorator.
$name->addDecorator('Label', аrray('escape'=>false));
Or see setEscape(). http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.form.standardDecorators.html
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international html files archived by wget
should contain chars like this
(example hebrew and thai:)
אב
הם
and ยคน
instead they are saved like this:
íäáåãéú and ÃÒ¡à§é
How to get the these displayed properly?
iconv filename.html
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 1254
SOLVED: There was nothing wrong.
Only i didnt notice the default php.ini did set the charset in the http header but
to use various charsets like this meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-874" you needed to set: default_charset = "empty";
....
The pages aren't "saved like this", whatever you're using to view the file is simply interpreting the encoding incorrectly. To know what encoding the file is in you should have paid attention to the HTTP Content-Type header during download; that's gone now.
Your only other chance is to parse the equivalent HTML meta tag in the <head>, if the document has one.
Otherwise, you can only guess the encoding of the document.
See What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text for more required background knowledge.
I am trying to render a form which contains accents in the setlabel method like:
$ticketNumber->setLabel("Endereço");
I have tried every single option out there from forums. but it does not work, it displays the ã instead of the true value of that entity.
I addition. if i try the following, the text for the label does not render(the label is blank) at all.
$ticketNumber->setLabel("Endereço");
In my application.ini have added the following:
resources.view.encoding = "ISO-8859-1"
I really don't know what is wrong. I've been fighting this for couple of days now.
Any help is welcomed.
thank you.
$ticketNumber->setLabel("Endereço");
is correct. But you're then telling it to use an encoding where ç is not a valid character. You need to switch that to UTF-8 or similar:
resources.view.encoding = "UTF-8"
I am using a Zend_Form subclass to add and edit records in a database. The layout has iso-8859-1 encoding and charset. The table records use latin1_spanish_ci collation.
The form input text element doesn't display anything at all when the record contains special characters like accents. If there are no special characters the form input text element displays the record correctly. Curiously enough the special characters display correctly when they appear outside the text input field, for example inside an Html heading2 or a paragraph.
I have tried inserting the following in application.ini:
resources.db.params.charset=iso-8859-1
but I get an error message:
SQLSTATE[42000] [1115] Unknown character set: 'iso-8859-1'
I have also tried changing the db charset to utf8 in the same way. The form text element displays the string but I get strange characters instead of the original ones.
I have tried almost anything but I haven't solved the problem. It seems that text input elements generated with Zend_Form hate Latin characters.
Have you had the same problem?
I found this simple solution in a zf forum:
Add the following to your _initView function in bootstrap.php and forget about everything else:
$view->setEncoding('iso-8859-1');
I am writing a webapp in ZF and am having serious issues with UTF8. It's using multi lingual content through Zend Form and it seems that ZF heavily escapes all of these characters and basically just won't show a field if there's diacritical elements 'é' and if I use the HTML entity equivalent e.g. é it gets escaped so that the user will see 'é'.
Zend Form allows for having non escaped data, but trying to use this is confusing, and it seems it'd need to be used all over the place.
So, I have been told that if the page and the text is in UTF8, no conversion to htmlentities is required. Is this true?
And if the last question is true, then how do I convert the source text to UTF8? I am comfortable setting up apache so that it sends a default UTF8 charset heading, and also adding the charset meta tag to the html, but doing this I am still getting messed up encoding. I have also tried opening the translation csv file in TextWrangler on OSX as UTF8, but it has done nothing.
Thanks!
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'é' and if I use the HTML entity equivalent e.g. é it gets escaped so that the user will see 'é'.
This I don't understand. Can you show an example of how it is displayed, as opposed to how it should be displayed?
So, I have been told that if the page and the text is in UTF8, no conversion to htmlentities is required. Is this true?
Yup. In more detail: If the data you're displaying and the encoding of the HTML page are both UTF-8, the multi-byte special characters will be displayed correctly.
And if the last question is true, then how do I convert the source text to UTF8?
Advanced editors and IDEs enable you to define what encoding the source file is saved in. You would need to open the file in its current encoding (with special characters being displayed correctly) and save it as UTF-8.
If the content is messed up when you have the right content-type header and/or meta tag specified, then the content is not UTF-8 yet. If you don't get it sorted, post an example of what it looks like here.
I have a function within a custom CRM web application (old VB.Net circa 2003) that takes a set of fields from a database and merges them with palceholders in a set of RTF based template documents. These generate merged letters and documentation. The code essentially loops through each line of the RTF template file and replaces any instances of the placeholder values with text from a database record. The issue I'm having is that users have pasted a certain type of apostrophe into the web app (and therefore into the database) that is not rendering correctly in the resulting RTF file. It is rendering like this - ’.
I need a way to spot this invalid apostrophe in the code and replace it with a valid one. Unfortunately when I paste the invalid apostrophe into the Visual Studio editor it gets converted into the correct one. So I need another way to express this invalid apostrophe's value. Unfortunately I do not know a great deal about unicode and other encodings so I'm calling out for help with this.
Any ideas?
If you really just want to figure out what the character is you might want to try and paste it into a text editor like ultraedit. It has a hex mode that you can flip to to see the actual underlying bytes.
In order to do the replace once you've figured out the character you'd do something like this in Vb,
text.Replace(ChrW(2001), "'")
Note that you might not be able to figure it out easily using the text editor because it might also get mangled by paste from the clipboard. You might want to either print some debug of the ascii values from code. You can use the AscW function to do that.
I can't help but think that it may actually simply be a case of specifying the correct encoding to use when you write out the stream though. Assuming you're using a StreamWriter you can specify it on the constructor. I'm guessing you actually want ASCII given your requirement.
oWriter = New System.IO.StreamWriter(path, False, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
It looks like you probably want to encode characters out of the 8 bit range (>255).
You can do that using \uNNNN according to the wikipedia article.