[Plugin: WP-Table Reloaded] Encoding problem when importing table

Hi,

yes, this is definitely an encoding problem, but unfortunately, I have not yet found a solution to it. There are other people (also with uncommen characters in their languages, like Czech or Japanese) that report the same problem.
I just don’t know how to fix it though, as I’m no expert for character encoding ??
It might be worth to try a few different encodings of the CSV file, maybe.

Best wishes,
Tobias

Please tell me where in the plugin’s code (which files and line numbers) is the importing and converting a csv functions.
I’m not an encoding expert either, but I might figure out something in the code and try to fix that.

Hi,

that should be the files
import.class.php
(which does have a few lines dealing with encoding that I tried a while ago, without real success)
and parsecsv.class.php
(which is an external library I use for CSV import),
both in the “classes” folder.

Thanks for looking into it!

Best wishes,
Tobias

Well, I looked in the parsecsv.class.php, tried to change in lines 127-128 the input/output encoding to utf-8 , still didn’t help.

But then I went to my csv file and opened it with notepad and the re-saved it in utf-8. I t appears that the csv that MS-Excel made was in ANSI encoding.

After re-saving the csv in utf-8 format, the import seems to be working fine with Hebrew characters.

Hi,

yes, that’s something that has worked for me before, too, but not in all cases.
Of course it would be nice to somehow have this automatic, so that the import script can detect the encoding and transform it as necessary…

Best wishes,
Tobias

Any luck with the encoding issue?
I have a table with utf8 encoding, but some of the characters show, some dont (I get question-marks and such).

I tried opening the csv in notepad++ and resaving as txt and with utf8 encoding (and without BOM) but still nothing.
The preview of the table looks perfect, but as soon as I import it it gets mixed up.

I am really desperate since I am making a website for a big client(a hotel) and have to make it perfect.

Please help!

Hi,

unfortunately not, sorry ??

The only workaround that works for almost all people is to manually enter characters that make problems into the text fields as then the tables are saved correctly.
Unfortunately, this is more work than importing a table, but with that copy and paste it at least works…

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

even that doesn’t work for me… when I try to type in data by hand the characters also turn into question-marks! Could it be a problem with the cufon font replacement?

Thanks,
tank

Hi,

that could be a possibility. But that would mean that your table actually does show up on the page (just with broken characters). Is that the case? From the context of this thread I figured that the entire table was broken after an import. But not that you mention cufon and after re-reading your post, your problem seems to be unrelated to the previous posts in the thread.
Your problem might be rather simple: The font you have chosen in cufon could not contain all characters that you want, like special accents and so on. Can you try without cufon?

Regards,
Tobias

In wp-table-install.php

Add CHARACTER SET to sql query like that:

$sql = “CREATE TABLE “.$table_name.” (
table_aid MEDIUMINT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
table_name VARCHAR(200) DEFAULT ‘Table name’ NOT NULL,
description MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL,
alternative TINYINT(1) DEFAULT ‘1’ NOT NULL,
show_name TINYINT(1) DEFAULT ‘1’ NOT NULL,
show_desc TINYINT(1) DEFAULT ‘0’ NOT NULL,
head_bold TINYINT(1) DEFAULT ‘1’ NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY id (table_aid),
PRIMARY KEY (table_aid)
) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET = utf8
COLLATE = utf8_polish_ci;”;`

You must deleted previouns tables and than activate plugin again toinstal this correctly or add ALTER CHARSET query in ex phpmyadmin

Hi rafff,

thanks a lot for this code!

Unfortunately, this won’t help with WP-Table Reloaded as this is a different plugin as wp-Table for which your code is valid.
WP-Table Reloaded does not use own database tables, so this solution can not be applied unfortunately.

Best wishes,
Tobias