UTF-8 og contact-form problem

  • Resolved nansettensing

    (@nansettensing)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    Hi! I have two problems I hope you can help me solve:)

    1) I am using the encoding UTF-8. All characters are working fine in the content, but in the sidebar and the footer characters like é??ê etc… appear as sqaures… What do I have to do? I’ve heard something about that I have to save the sidebar and the footer as UTF-8???

    2) I’m using the contact-form by Douglas Karr, but you can’t click in the text-areas and write your name etc.. when the contact-form is in a area beside the sidebar, but below works ok. Well, you can click, but you then have to click a special place. What’s happening!!?

    Thanks for answers!

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  • Hi nansetinsing,

    for todays weblog it is the right choice to use UTF-8 as encoding. Sothat this works out well, any text-data must be encoded in UTF-8 as well. That means, that the data coming from your database is encoded in UTF-8 as well as the text-data coming out of your files is. That means that wordpress base files must be in UTF-8 (those are if you are using the original wordpress version). But also, the plugins files need to be as well (sometimes those are not because not all plugin authors take care about that) and some translation files aren’t either (that really is a pitty).

    So for your display problems you need to find out, which file or datasource is deleivering text non-UTF-8 encoded.

    The second problem you talk about looks like a CSS related display problem. Looks like the plugin is not compatible with your theme.

    Thread Starter nansettensing

    (@nansettensing)

    Thank you:) But, could you tell me how to change the encoding properities for wordpress base files and plugins files etc…?

    Encoding of a file can be changed with a editor that can change the encoding. For example Editplus for windows.

    For the database, I think wordpress will handle that for you if you configure the UTF-8 setting in the admin.

    I hope this little information helps you.

    Thread Starter nansettensing

    (@nansettensing)

    Thank you so much!! Now it finally works!! I appreciate your help a lot! Thank you again ??

    Hey, cool it worked out so far! Can you mark this thread as resolved, that would be nice. Thanks!

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