Hi, I've been using MovableType (4.32) for a long time, and having a weird encoding issue. Russian entries I have in the platform now are showing up quite odd.
Interestingly, when I am checking the database (PhpMyAdmin) Russian entries are showing correctly in Cyrillic .
I am sharing the screenshot as follows: http://www.uzre.uz/en/2011/05/18/weirdo.PNG
Not sure, what is wrong. I really, really would appreciate any help
Reported on Movable Type 4.3
You're having an encoding issue!
If you provide me the URL where this issue occurs I could provide you further advice.
It could be for instance that your website is encoded in UTF-8, but your server is imposing an ISO encoding in the pages header.
Would be able to confirm or infirm this assumption after getting your Website URL and checking it myself.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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here is the page: http://www.uzre.uz/forum/ . The content of the movabletype dashboard is similar too. In fact, not only the entry contents are problematic, but also the name of the blog, which is written in Russian, appears in gibberish in MovableType dashboard.
Content encoding I'm using is utf-8, both in mt-config.cgi and in my templates. My template files also have their utf bit properly set. I also have AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 in my apache configuration.
The weird part is when I access the same entries myself using Perl I get proper results: http://www.uzre.uz/cgi-bin/mt-problem.cgi . So database is storing data properly.
I even tried to disable HTMLEntities, to no avail.
I am good at debugging. But this time I yield.
Another very important update. Look at http://www.uzre.uz/cgi-bin/mt-problem.cgi
Basically, when I access the mysql database bypassing MT::Object, I get expected results. But when I use MT::Entry to access and output data the problem i've been having persists.
Any thoughts at what direction I should head?
I see you already checked most of the things described in http://www.movabletips.com/2010/03/iso-8859-1-utf8-character-sets-encoding-movable-type-and-you.html
But here is something else worth investigating:
I took a look at your mt-problem.cgi link in Google Chrome. I noticed that when I switched the encoding of the page to Windows-1252 the 'good' perl-dbi section would look exactly like what the 'bad' MT:Entry section looks like with the default UTF-8 encoding switched on.
So for some reason the output of MT::Entry is getting transformed from UTF-8 to Windows-1252 somewhere.
I hope this helps your further debugging. Maybe grep for '1252' in your MT folder and/or the apache config?
Maarten,
Your investigation cheered me up at first, but now I found no reference to "1252" in anywhere. I skimmed through the source code of MT::Entry and MT::Object but found no clues.
Are there any MT developers who may have a slightest clue?
I also thought it might be the affect of a text filter. But looking through the source code of Entry.pm I see that entry_title isn't being filtered.
The weirdest thing is I've been using this installation of Movable Type for almost two years. This thing happened out of blue! I touched absolutely nothing, installed no modules or plugins nor addons.
When did this problem start, Sherzod?
Did it start after a movable type upgrade?
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Mihai,
As I said, I did absolute nothing.
But now, when I tried to upgrade my MT installation to 4.35 (from 4.32) hoping it may fix this problem, I get another problem: "undefined type: longtext". Check this out: http://uzre.uz/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi
Hi Sherzod,
I've replied to you on the other topic you've created specifically for this new error message you're getting.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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