[i18n] French language doesn't work for me

[Benoit St-Andre]

Please keep discussions on the list too :-)

I'm a bit mixed up between your personal system (with your browser) and the 
server setup.

Does the server locale have the same parameters has you said ?

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Le 27 Janvier 2004 10:40, HARPER Damien a écrit :
> Hi,
> thanks for your reply!
> In fact, my browser uses UTF-8
> Horde seems to detect my browser support of UTF-8 (NLS::getCharset()) and
> then automatically UTF-8 encode data... I don't know how to change my
> system locale from fr_FR.UTF-8 to fr_FR or fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
>
> Regards,
>
> Damien Harper
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Benoit St-Andre [mailto:ben at benoitst-andre.net]
> Envoyé : mardi 27 janvier 2004 16:41
> À : HARPER Damien; i18n at lists.horde.org
> Objet : Re: [i18n] French language doesn't work for me
>
> Le 27 Janvier 2004 08:58, Damien Harper a écrit :
> > Horde is set for fr_FR language, ISO-8859-1 is set for DB connections.
> >
> > Here is a shot description of my troubles, I hope someone can help me !!!
> >
> > I'm talking about french content. French strings are displayed properly
> > but french content looks like UTF-8 encoded but seems to be badly decoded
> > for display so that weird character (like chinese) appear and javascript
> > errors occur as soon as data manipulated by these scripts contain accents
> > ! For example, i create a type named "Nouvelle fonctionnalité" within
> > whups. As soon as I click OK button, the following stage 1 summary is
> > displayed : Nom du type : Nouvelle fonctionnalit?td>
> > and the following is diplayed in stage 2
> >       Nom du type : Nouvelle fonctionnalit?id=
> >
> > If I look in the database (MySQL), here is what is stored in the
> > whups_type table "Nouvelle fonctionnalité"
> >
> > My setup is set to french latin1 and the output of the locale command is
> > LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> > So, maybe the problem begins here...
> >
> > Hope that it helps !
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Damien Harper
> >
> >
> >
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> If I understand correctly your setup, you are typing your commands on your
> system that encodes them in UTF-8 in the database, because your local setup
> is UTF-8. However, I think Horde's pages are shown in your case in
> ISO-8859-1 , try changing the encoding with your browser to UTF-8, if
> things turns out to reverse completely (your french content ok but all the
> french strings from horde will show some "?" instead).
>
> I'm not sure about the solution though. Maybe it would be that your locale
> on the system would be ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8...