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using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #7752] Thu, 22 June 2006 13:00 Go to next message
hautzi is currently offline hautzi
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hello,

i'm using the select_country() function to get a list of all countries - but german 'umlaute' like 'äöü' aren't displayed correctly.

i've tried to change the enconding of the .dat file containing the information in <pear-path>/data/symfony/i18n/ but it also didn't work.

is there a solution for that?

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christoph hautzinger

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #7783 is a reply to message #7752 ] Fri, 23 June 2006 09:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The problem with select_country_tag is that the array of countries get's asort-ed. asort is not multibyte aware, but does have a locale sort flag.

What we could do is have sfUser::setCulture() also set php's internal locale...for example

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US');


and then use 

asort($countries, SORT_LOCALE_STRING);


I havent tested any of this, but it should work.


In PHP6 the whole locale thing is reworked however. It will be replaced by i18n_loc_set_default().
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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15912 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 15:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have the same problem, and this fix does not work.

what should I do?

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15915 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 15:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I am not familiar with the problem, but it looks like select_country_tag could be rewritten to use a multi-byte-aware sort routine.

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15918 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 16:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
aleckan is currently offline aleckan
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the sorting is not the problem, the problem is that characters like åäö are not dislpayed properly inside the selecttag when using iso8859-1

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15923 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 17:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes, but if I understand simonbun's message correctly, it is asort that is corrupting the special characters.

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15926 is a reply to message #15923 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 17:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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halfer wrote on Tue, 14 November 2006 17:29

Yes, but if I understand simonbun's message correctly, it is asort that is corrupting the special characters.


nope, I have tried to remove the sorting and the result is the same with the corrupt characters

[Updated on: Tue, 14 November 2006 17:38]

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15927 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 17:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Internationalisation isn't my bag, but have you tried utf-8?

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15930 is a reply to message #15927 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 18:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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halfer wrote on Tue, 14 November 2006 17:45

Internationalisation isn't my bag, but have you tried utf-8?


I have had problems with utf-8 on the rest of the site =(

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15931 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 18:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Oh dear. How about writing a helper that switches special characters to entity equivalents before putting them into the select tag helper?

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15932 is a reply to message #15931 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 19:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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halfer wrote on Tue, 14 November 2006 18:30

Oh dear. How about writing a helper that switches special characters to entity equivalents before putting them into the select tag helper?


it's just that I don't know where to do it as it is allready corrupted before it is sorted.

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15943 is a reply to message #7752 ] Tue, 14 November 2006 23:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It does it in PEAR/symfony/helper/FormHelper.php. Try this:

<?php
$c = new sfCultureInfo(sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->getCulture());
  $countries = $c->getCountries();
  echo "<pre>";
  print_r($countries);
  echo "</pre>";
?>

If that doesn't produce a corrupt array, then the issue would have to be in select_country_tag().

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15946 is a reply to message #15943 ] Wed, 15 November 2006 00:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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that code produces the same error. example: 

[AE] => Förenade Arabemiraten


if I use utf-8 the problem is gone, but then I can't have åäö caharcters posted properly in input tags instead which is even worse.

the question is if the characters are read wrong from the file, and if so if I can change the chartype of the dat file? why aren't the special charcters writen as entitys in the dat file from the beginning?

[Updated on: Wed, 15 November 2006 00:24]

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15950 is a reply to message #15946 ] Wed, 15 November 2006 07:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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aleckan: i strongly suggest you to switch to utf-8 and solve the input-tag problem instead. There are zillions of web sites that work perfectly well with utf-8. Switch to utf-8 and never worry about encoding ever again.
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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15953 is a reply to message #15950 ] Wed, 15 November 2006 09:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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chtito wrote on Wed, 15 November 2006 07:10

aleckan: i strongly suggest you to switch to utf-8 and solve the input-tag problem instead. There are zillions of web sites that work perfectly well with utf-8. Switch to utf-8 and never worry about encoding ever again.


The problem is I tried to fix that problem earlier but never found a solution. And I use millions of inputs as I'm building a cms.

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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15954 is a reply to message #15953 ] Wed, 15 November 2006 09:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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How come you didn't find a solution? As i said there are loads of web sites using input tags and utf-8 and nobody has problem with that. At least people should be able to help you out. What is your problem with input tags? Did you ask about that in this forum before?
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Re: using select_country() in ia0-8859-1 documents [message #15956 is a reply to message #15954 ] Wed, 15 November 2006 10:06 Go to previous message
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chtito wrote on Wed, 15 November 2006 09:49

How come you didn't find a solution? As i said there are loads of web sites using input tags and utf-8 and nobody has problem with that. At least people should be able to help you out. What is your problem with input tags? Did you ask about that in this forum before?


The problem is sort of the same but reversed, when I use utf-8 the $this->getRequestParameter('name_of_field') is corrupt with strange characters instead of the åäöéü etc that should be there. So I don't even have a chance to replace them with html entitys before I save the posted info in the database.

I don't remember if I asked about this earlier as I found the solution in using iso8859-1 instead, and that have worked perfect untill now with the problems using select_country_tag

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