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On Friday, August 21, 2015 12:36:59 PM hw wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> any idea why Umlaute are not displayed correctly when they appear in |
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> text generated from the FormBuilder module? |
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> When looking at the source of the form in the web browser, it has: |
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> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
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> <!DOCTYPE html |
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> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" |
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> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> |
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> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de_DE" xml:lang="de_DE"> |
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> <head> |
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> <title>Jobnummer erzeugen</title> |
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> <link href="/styles/cgiforms.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> |
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> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- hide from old browsers |
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> [...] |
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> </script> |
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> </head> |
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> <body> |
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> <h3>Jobnummer erzeugen</h3> |
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> <noscript><span class="fb_invalid">Bitte aktivieren Sie JavaScript oder |
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> benutzen Sie einen neueren Webbrowser.</span></noscript> |
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> <p>Sie m�ssen Angaben f�r die <span |
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> class="fb_required">hervorgehobenen</span> Felder machen.</p> |
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> So the header says the encoding is UTF-8. The message template is also |
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> UTF-8: |
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> sunflo cgi-bin # file |
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> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.1/CGI/FormBuilder/Messages/de.pm |
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> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.1/CGI/FormBuilder/Messages/de.pm: Perl5 |
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> module source, UTF-8 Unicode text |
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> sunflo cgi-bin # |
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> Text with Umlauten I put myself into the form, like field labels, are |
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> shown correctly. I have put '@charset "utf-8";' at the beginning of the |
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> style sheet, but it doesn't help. |
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> How could I fix this problem? |
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This is probably not the best list for this question, but one possible |
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solution is to html encode it. You can use app-text/recode as follows: |
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# echo 'ü' | recode utf8...html |
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ü |
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Or just use the codes from: |
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http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/schreiben/umlaute/umlaute_ASCII_html.html |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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