[i18n] Re: [dev] Problems using UTF8 with some languages (accents shown like chinese characters) patch

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Daniel Vandal <dvandal at infoteck.qc.ca>:

> I will try to re-explain the problem and what these patches does.
>
> The problem is that with some languages (French in my case) usign
> accents (à â ä ë é ê è ô ö î ï û ü, ... ), in many texts containing
> accents, the accents are displayed like chinese characters. In example,
> "Résidence" would be displayed  like "R鳩dence" (I'm not sure if you
> will se the chinese character). And the users using my Horde
> installations doesn't like this problem and this patch as make everybody
> very happy there.
>
> The cause is that NLS.php get from the browser UTF8 as the charset to
> use, but in our case we should use ISO-8859-1 (in French) to work
> properly without any problems.

Alright, so the actual problem is that Horde is sending the page with an
UTF-8 header, but the content is really in ISO-8859-1.

But where do these texts come from?

Jan.

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