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[Jean Richard]

Due to erroneous or obsolete settings, gliders in the classifieds are getting very expensive.

For exemple, C-FLPS is announced at 35 000 €, which is 56 180 $.

I tried with 4 different browsers and only one displayed $35 000. That one was Internet Explorer 5, which is a very old and obsolete piece of software that nobody is using anymore.

Maybe you will see $35 000 if your operating system is in English, since your default settings will automatically display it that way. But maybe somebody in UK will read 35 000 £, which is 70 129 $. Very very expensive for a Pik 20B.
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Jean Richard
Montréal

[blizzard]

In English with FireFox it shows correctly as $35000.

Must be the language settings.

[Jean Richard]

[sps]

I think I've fixed the problem. A dollar sign is now showing up after the price.

As you guys surmised, the program was incorrectly set up to display the wrong currency symbol when French was selected as a language. Joomla and applications written for Joomla do internationalization by having all labels which show up on a page stored as variables. These variables are set with respect to the language preference that you have chosen.

It would be nice if there was one place to set regional settings (such as currency sign or date display) but it doesn't appear that that is the case.

If you notice anything else like this, please let us know so we can see if we can fix it.

Thanks!

[Jean Richard]

Yes, the currency problem appears to have been fixed. I now see $ and no more €.

But there's still something funny...

Character encoding is not the same everywhere. There's a mix of UTF-8 (which is now the most used on the web for European languages UTF-16 is mostly used for Asian ones) and html (which is less and less used). That means that some characters are OK while some are not (once again, you won't note it if you go for 100 % English).

For exemple, if you select French in the main page and then go to classified and select the Pik-20B, having your browser set to UTF-8 will display correctly “Mot de passe oublié” at the left lower corner, but in the middle of the page, just at the top of the Pik-20B announce, you will read “Tr?s bon Etat”. Switching your browser manually to ISO-8859-15 will reverse the result.
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Jean Richard
Montréal

[sps]

I looked at the code underlying your examples. Whether or not the accented characters display properly is a matter of how they were entered/stored by the people who wrote each component.

I can take the accented characters from the "login" component and copy them into a test version of the classified ads component and those copied in characters will display properly on the website. Unfortunately, the ones that were entered in the classifieds component display incorrectly.

Here's a cut and paste of what it looks like from my editor:

DEFINE ("ADSMANAGER_CONTACT_NOT_LOGGED", "Pour avoir accès accès au contact, identifiez-vous ou inscrivez-vous");

The funny thing is the version of the word accès which shows up correctly in the above line is the one that shows up incorrectly in Joomla. The one with the funny character here shows up correctly in Joomla.

The bottom line for the accented characters in the classifieds is that every single accented character has been stored incorrectly even though they look OK in the file.

You wouldn't happen to know of an Linux editor which would handle the storing of the accented characters properly, would you?

Susan

P.S. To make matters more interesting, when you enter accented characters while writing articles, the accented characters are translated into the HTML for the characters (è etc.) and stored in the database that way :)

[sps]

Eureka! I think...

I found a utility which converts between character sets and ran the classifieds french labels file through it. I converted the file from iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and it looks like things are displaying better.

If anybody notices other places where this problem exists, let us know and maybe the same solution will apply.

Susan

[Jean Richard]

[sps]

The accented characters are now showing up properly in the article subject line.

This was a different problem then the Classified Ads problem as article subject lines and article details are actually stored in the underlying MySQL database and the entered characters supposedly go through some sort of sanitization process.

Unfortunately, I solved the problem before I went and looked at things at the database level, so I'm not exactly sure what went wrong in the storing of the accented characters. If it happens again then I will remember to look at the database first.

Thanks for pointing out the problem!

Susan

[Martin GAGNON II]

[sps]