Switching code page for foreign language

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#1 Thu, 01/21/2010 - 04:11

CedSha

Switching code page for foreign language

Hi,

My usermin foreign language users (mainly Chinese), when they open the Inbox always have scrambled text. They must switch the page manually to Chinese character. (Using Firefox 3.5.7 and Usermin 1.430) Is there any option to have the code page switch automatically ?

CedSha

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#2 Thu, 01/21/2010 - 10:49

andreychek

Hello,

I'll talk to Jamie about the problem you're seeing.

What steps do your users take in order to fix that? How do they go about changing the page to Chinese characters?

Thanks,

-Eric

#3 Fri, 01/22/2010 - 08:45

CedSha

Hi,

Tks for your answer here how I manage to do it :

First I open usermin inbox with firefox
Then in firefox menu DISPLAY>CHARACTER ENCODING>GB2312
(Menu translation maybe not so accurate...)

Then the inbox display well chinese but no more my french accents. you should also notice that when opening the mail for viewing there is no such problem and the message display well.

-CedSha

#4 Fri, 01/22/2010 - 10:54

andreychek

Okay, great.

And one more question -- is it possible for you to show a screenshot of how Usermin looks, both before and after changing the codepage?

Thanks!

-Eric

#5 Mon, 01/25/2010 - 05:08

CedSha

Hi,

Please find enclosed the small screen-shots for both before and after manual change of code page to GB2312.
Before the French sentence in top is good and has accent at the good place on the first e of 'problème' but Chinese on the bottom is impossible to read. After the French sentence is no more goods for the accent but the Chinese is good (you can believe me it is ...!).

Regards -CedSha

#6 Wed, 01/27/2010 - 20:01 (Reply to #5)

JamieCameron

If you click on the email to open it, does it appear with the correct characters even when your browser is not set to the GB2312 code page?

#7 Mon, 02/08/2010 - 12:28

CedSha

Hi,

Sorry for late reply, I made some test but the results aren't really clear for me. Most of the time (!) when I open Chinese mail which have scrambled text on his title the text open well and can be read without problem. Even the top of the message which contain the title is correct.
Now I am little bit puzzled because I received two French mails with accents. One title display well while the other not. Then I change ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8 now this is opposite The one display well before now looks scrambled and the scrambled one looks clearly. I then forward these two messages to Gmail and there all the titles looks good.
I do not know which test I could do now to give relevant results.
If you need I can forward you some mails for tests purposes.

Regards - CedSha

#8 Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:53 (Reply to #7)

JamieCameron

So the issue here is that email subjects are not yet shown correctly in the mail list because (as far as I know) a single web page can have only one character set. So in a mail list with a mix of chinese and english emails, there is no single character set than be used to show all of them :-(

#9 Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:03 (Reply to #8)

JamieCameron

However, I have just thought of an idea to better handle this in the case where all email has the same character set. I'll add that in the next usermin release..

#10 Sat, 02/13/2010 - 06:11 (Reply to #9)

moskit

Is it possible to rund by default UTF-8 in usermin?

I've got the same problem with Polish characters. I can switch in usermin configuration to UTF-8, but still I've got problems with topics.

#11 Thu, 08/25/2011 - 07:31 (Reply to #10)

webinger

Hi all, I know the switching problem.

If you have firefox and go to View -> Character Encoding You can see that usermin is set to 8859-1. I Think Usermin in General should be switched to UTF-8

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