Archive umlaut issue ä

Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Cyberworld

Not sure if its really a bug but it doesn´t look correct.
Within the archive and there the month March is called in German März you ll get an url like this:http://my-site.de/archive-2007-03-M.html%E4rz.
In English its archive-2007-03-March.html and the title is March, 2007 while the German title is just M, 2007

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 926

I suspect this to be a problem with the old GT/GT-NExtGEn as well. I'll have to log this one as a bug and look into it. Unfortunately, I am not too good with dealing in multi-languages as you well know... Sad

Thank you for pointing this out though. Another good catch!

Spam Stopper - Comments Modules · Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 297

I suspect there will always be a problem with special characters like that as 'taps' only really look for utf8 (english) characters.

I am intrigued though as to whether there might also be some knock-on effects with browser rendering as the users regional settings will be for a specific character map.

Sussan, can you throw me a link, I would like to take a look to see how it appears on my system.

Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Cyberworld

Guardian just click März.
I believe there is no difference between different browsers.

Yes, its also a problem with the old GT-Next Gen.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 926

The problem appears that März must be showing up as

Quote:

März

in the HTML (in the link), pre-tap, which is coming from this define:

define('_MARCH','März');

I'll have to just log this and then when I get the time to analyze this further, I'll have to figure out how to address.

Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Cyberworld

Thanks Montego.
I solved it by simple renaming März to Maerz in the German language file wich is the same. The title and the url is now correct. define('_MARCH','Maerz');
Of course I would prefer März but its possible thats a problem for some browser. Smile

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 926

Susann. No worries. I will definitely look into this. Just not sure yet if there is an easy solution.

Newbie Joined: Nov 03, 2007 Posts: 75

This seems to be similar to my problem with Scandivian letters åäö.

My suggestion is that you change this line in .htaccess and adds ä:

RewriteRule ^archive-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zäA-Z]*).* modules.php?name=Stories_Archive&sa=show_month&year=$1&month=$2&month_l=$3 [L]

In Shortlinks/GT-Stories_Archieve.php add ä to this line:

'"(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Stories_Archive&sa=show_month&year=([0-9]*)&month=([0-9]*)&month_l=([a-zäA-Z]*)"',

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 926

Yeah, I just wish there was a more complete and transferable (across charsets) solution. Thanks for the additional info in this thread.

Newbie Joined: Nov 03, 2007 Posts: 75

I had a similar problem on my site and to fix it I had to add also %.
You probably must add % in:

RewriteRule ^archive-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([a-zäA-Z%]*).* modules.php?name=Stories_Archive&sa=show_month&year=$1&month=$2&month_l=$3 [L]

and

'"(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Stories_Archive&sa=show_month&year=([0-9]*)&month=([0-9]*)&month_l=([a-zäA-Z%]*)"',