Incorrect encoding for Description field [#35301]

Submitted by yngens on Sat, 11/15/2014 - 23:25

When clicking on "List Managed System" link and viewing the list of guest system the Description with cyrillic content looks just ok like, for example:

ns1.domain.org 65.140.205.236 CentOS Linux Virtualmin (5) Тот самый сервер с неправильным тэгом в дата-центре

However, if I click on that server the same field shows:

Тот самый сервер с неправильным тэгом в дата-центре

Request to make this field (and for that matter all other fields) to correctly work with non-English alphabets (UTF-8?).

Status:

Active

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 11/16/2014 - 01:55 Comment #1

Which language do you have selected for the UI in Virtualmin, and with which character set? If it isn't UTF-8, then these kinds of incorrect encodings could happen..

Submitted by yngens on Mon, 11/17/2014 - 13:39 Comment #2

It is English. And I never changed character set. Everything is default. However, in nowadays applications with UI it is possible to use English with correctly displayed characters in other languages, so I thought *min family should also follow this path.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 11/17/2014 - 21:27 Comment #3

Yes, Webmin/Virtualmin should handle this .. and in a test on my system, it works just fine.

Make sure that at Webmin -> Webmin Configuration -> Language that you have EN.UTF-8 selected as the language.

Submitted by yngens on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 11:12 Comment #4

It was set to just EN, not EN.UTF-8 by default, however even after switching to EN.UTF-8, restarting Webmin it is showing gibberish characters in "Description or comment" on "Edit System" window:

&#1058;&#1086;&#1090; &#1089;&#1072;&#1084;&#1099;&#1081; &#1089;&#1077;&#1088;&#1074;&#1077;&#1088; &#1089; &#1085;&#1077;&#1087;&#1088;&#1072;&#1074;&#1080;&#1083;&#1100;&#1085;&#1099;&#1084; &#1090;&#1101;&#1075;&#1086;&#1084; &#1074; &#1076;&#1072;&#1090;&#1072;-&#1094;&#1077;&#1085;&#1090;&#1088;&#1077;

Please note that on "List Managed Systems" the same field is displayed correctly:

Тот самый сервер с неправильным тэгом в дата-центре

and I am afraid when clicking on "View Frame Source" of the right frame it doesn't show any encoding set in the headers:

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/unauthenticated/reset-fonts-grids-base.css'>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/unauthenticated/virtual-server-style.css' />
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
table.formsection, table.ui_table, table.loginform { border-collapse: collapse; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<script>
var rowsel = new Array();
</script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='/unauthenticated/sorttable.js'></script>
<style type="text/css">
textarea,pre { font-size:120%; }
</style>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; Charset=UTF-8">
<title>Edit System</title>
<script type='text/javascript'>
window.defaultStatus="root logged into Webmin 1.710 on ns1.drupion.com (CentOS Linux 6.6)";
</script>
</head>

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 16:48 Comment #5

Which browser and version are you running there, and on which operating system?