Language: Swedish

[empiucci]

Hi I use Easy PHP Calendar on my site www.prylfreak.com or more exactly www.prylfreak.com/kalender

I have one major problem and that is the language characters. I have set the Character Set to iso-8859-1 for the Setup Manager and the Event Manager. So the special characters for Swedish do show correctly in the event manager and setup manager but the outcome on the site dont manage to show them correctly.

How do I solve this problem??

[Brian]

Is there a particular date that has these special characters?

[empiucci]

Fre - Nov 18 - in the listmode under the TOC mode.. But theese characters dont work in the TOC mode either.

[Brian]

Your page is set to the character set UTF-8 but the Setup Manager and Event Manger to iso-8859-1?

[empiucci]

Well I guess so, the characters shows correctly in the Setup and Event manager.. But not on the webpage (www.prylfreak.com/kalender).. Thats why I'm getting confused..

/ Emil

[Brian]

Did you try changing your page to iso-8859-1 too?

[empiucci]

How do I do that?

[ve9gra]

On the page where your calendar is, look for the line <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> and replace it with this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />

[pantani]

Hey, I have the exact same problem, and I can't solve it by changing the charset for the "motherpage". It's really annoying...

Edit: I opened config.inc.php and changed "l&oumlrdag" to "lördag" manually (can you see the ö?) and then it works fine. It seems like the calendar changes the special characters into "universal-characters" when you enter them in setup, but then can't "change them back" when the browser reads the page.

[Pmquist]

In Sweden we have å, ä, ö, Å, Ä, Ö which is rather important to us...

I can also get the headings working by changing in the config.inc.php. But i can not get the text within to work. I am about to buy the program but need a respons if this is possible to figure out.

/ PerOla

[Brian]

Make sure the charset is all the same in the Setup Manager and on your pages. If you're using mySQL, you server may require a UTF-8 setting which can be selected in the database section of the Setup Manager. (You may need to re-enter events after making these changes.)

[Pmquist]

I have changed in general settings to sv-utf-8, exactly the same setting as in MySql. It does not help.

Is there some other change i can do?

[Brian]

I tested it locally and those characters display correctly when I use iso-8859-1.

I then changed to utf-8 and (after re-entering the information), they appear correctly again.

If you have the right setting (which will be particular to your server), they will display as expected.

[Pmquist]

Thanks for testing.

I have the settings correct in MySQL, and in the calendar files. Is there some more place I should look.

/PerOla

[Brian]

The only places (two) in the calendar that need to be changed are in the Setup Manager.

You did re-enter the events after making the change right? They will need to be re-encoded after the change. The mySQL change is optional and your web host should know if this is required.