Hi When I input polish letters: ąęłźć etc. in descriptions of albums or photos
in my new 1.2.1 zenphoto gallery I get:
?…?…?…?™?™?™?™??€š??€š??€š ?…?…?…źźź?‡?‡?‡
Samething is wrong. I have new instalation of zenphoto and UTF-8 encoding in options and zp-config.php.
You can try this at:
http://www.fotostacja.pl/nowa/zp-core/admin.php?page=edit&album=nowe&saved&tagsort=0#tab_albuminfo
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Regards

Please move this thread to:
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=4035
I think that's the same problem.

We are working to fix some issues involving UTF-8 encodings (http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/795). Currently the only solution is to

1. Use the nightly build
   and
2. Update the table in the sanitize_strings() function to include the characters you are having problems with.

@sbillard

I am trying to figure out what you mean by point nr. 2. where can I put my special characters.

as I am having this same problem and I just installed a fresh nightly build to play with, put my database as UTF-8 before starting and a closer look afterward I can see all the tables are UTF-8, not like my previous test had some Swedish tables.

What I get on the web and in the database is

Prufa að setja à slenska stafi à þetta er UTF-8 að virka à áóúéþðö
but it should look more like

Prufa að setja íslenska stafi í þetta er UTF-8 að virka íáóúéþðö

Well, it is mostly moot now. Upgrade to the current nightly build as we have fixed the root problem.

it seems like there are still some problems with encoding. As I can see many people have..

I am still running into identical problems as 2 posts before.

I have updated to [2753]

During the update the setup asked me to change my php.ini file so I did, to this.
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8 ;

My database has always been set to UTF-8. I am running 2 test installations and I have the same problem on both. One of them was installed some time ago and has been updated a lot and still has some Swedish encoding on tables in database. and then 1 who I installed after I changed the default encoding in the database to UTF-8 so all its tables do have UTF-8.

me too the update asked me to change my php.ini file, my provider though does not allow me to acces the php.ini. I added the following to the .htacces file;

php_value mbstring.internal_encoding UTF-8

no warning anymore and accented characters appear ok..

Hi
I am using latest build:
http://www.zenphoto.org/files/nightly/zenphoto-2008-10-18-trunk.zip
When I upgrading my zenphoto there is information that:

Setting mbstring.internal_encoding to UTF-8 in your php.ini file is recommended to insure accented and multi-byte characters function properly.

When I am changing .htaccess in my gallery folder and adding:
php_value mbstring.internal_encoding UTF-8

I see Eror serwer 500
What I can do moore to see polish characters ?

I added ąśćńęł etc to sanitize_strings() and now can see it in descriptions but
in dates etc I still dont have polish strings

@mironb

could you please tell me where sanitize_strings() is... As I asked before and did not get that answered. because I would like to add áéíóúðþæö to there. Thanks

In zenphoto 1.2.1 that is in functions.php, in the nightliy it's in functions-basic.php. But the nightly does not have that array to add characters anymore. Instead sbillard and krainbolt were/are working on solving the general issue.

No wonder I didnt find it I looked all over the place.

Is there a manual way to put it back in for the time being or will the wait for a fix be the way to go?

For me sanitize_strings() are in admin/ options /gallery configuration/ allowed tags Now I know thats wrong but mayby it will help you:
In my version it looks like this:

a => (href => () title => ())
abbr => (title => ())
acronym => (title => ())
b => ()
blockquote => (cite => ())
code => ()
em => ()
i => ()
strike => ()
strong => ()
ul => ()
ol => ()
li => ()
p => ()
Å› => ()
Ä™ => ()
ź => ()
ż => ()
Å‚ => ()
Å„ => ()
ó => ()
Ä™ => ()
Ä… => ()
ć => ()

interesting way of going around an issue. however it did not work for me, I am not surprised as it is all screwed up in the database after zenphoto reads it in to begin with. Lets hope for a fix soon.

So if I ask again...

Is there a manual way to put it back in for the time being or will the wait for a fix be the way to go? I am wondering about my own web page as it is on hold.

You can use Zenphoto 1.2.1 if want to add characters to the sanitize_string function. sbillard is on vacation for a week so there will not much happen in this time. I am not familiar with those parts.