Messages & Shoutbox

[Caberhagen]

Hi

Found a problem on shoutbox and messages.
If the text have ä, ö and ü inside. The text are not showing. (not saved)

[kirirur]

Hello,

if I recall correctly, this should be a server configuration problem, not a bug in the STFC code.

I've made a test on the following machine:

• CentOS 6.6
• Apache 2.2.15
• mySQL 5.6.21
• PHP 5.4.34

and you can see the result:

I'll made some other test on the other machine.

[Caberhagen]

Hi

have you set in apache2 a default charset?

[kirirur]

Hi,

I'm using the default Apache configuration that comes with CentOS 6.6, however searching for charset in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I've found this directive:

 AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

[Caberhagen]

Hi

i set now in /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset the default to UTF-8
And is working.

[Caberhagen]

Hi

after the fix i have som fault displayed portal news.

[kirirur]

Hmmm, this could be an issue of the support center code.

However, it's the only point where umlauts aren't displayed correctly?

Please check everywhere in the game (messages, ships, auction and so on), so we can address the bug completely.

[Caberhagen]

Ok i do it.

[Caberhagen]

Hi
I see only in messages and shoutbox this problem.
On logs and others is all ok.

[kirirur]

The shoutbox wasn't ok after you changed apache config?

[Caberhagen]

On test with adddefaultcharset both are working. messages and shoutbox.
but portals news, logs any many others have then problems.

[kirirur]

Hmm, I think the "bug" isn't in the shoutbox but in the other part of the code. Charset should be UTF-8, it's almost the standard now.

Update, this is hard to reproduce, on my machine:

• CentOS 6.6
• Apache 2.2.15
• PHP 5.5.19
• mySQL 5.6.22

everything works fine. I've tested characters with umlauts on:

• headquarter
• spacedock
• trade center
• fleets
• alliance (found another bug with mySQL 5.5+ here)
• messages
• settings
• portal news
• portal shoutbox

without any problems.

[Caberhagen]

Is a strange thig.
I found in a lot of files in meta charset iso
but i look deeper in to it after all other stuff is full working.

[kirirur]

Do you mean in the HTML code generated by the game?

Let me know if changing it could solve the issue.

[Caberhagen]

You can see it on UI/index.php line 104.
and many others have this setting.
I make some work to track down this problem.
but not the highest prioriti in the mom.
feedback will come...

[kirirur]

Hello,

I see, maybe it should be changed to UTF-8?

Besides I've found a couple a lines below another little bug, content language should be variable depending upon the language detected by the browser.

[Caberhagen]

Nice Picture!

[kirirur]

Hello,

which race does show that characters?

[Caberhagen]

Hi

Race are federation
Ui lang is german.

[kirirur]

Hello,

Federation? I was pretty sure all the umlauts where translated with the corresponding HTML code.

Update: I've made some research, I was remembering correctly: umlauts in federation race are all translated into HTML code. There is for sure a bug between lines 458-497 in module researchlabs.PHP when it try to truncate names longer then 18 chars.

[kirirur]

Hello,

I should have found a solution, try to change line 465 in researchlabs.php from:

$compname=substr($tmp,0,16);

to:

$compname=htmlentities(substr($tmp,0,16));

It should works as expected, let me know if it works for you.

[Caberhagen]

Hi

i found the way to use umlauts.
On a open php5 system with no default charset config, php use the charset from the php files.
so we have to change all the settings in the php files to utf-8 or set in php.ini to default utf-8.

[kirirur]

Hi,

If you're running only STFC, probably the second solution is the easier. :) However I think umlauts should be translated in HTML counterparts.

[Caberhagen]

Hi

yes i using the php.ini way. but i look in to it to change the meta of the files to utf-8 if i have time...

[kirirur]

OK,

let me know any further development.

[kirirur]

Hello @Caberhagen can we consider closed this issue?

Thank you.