[fixed] Bulgarian-utf8 support is broken

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Tried 4 browsers no avail - the bulgarian utf8 support appears as gibberish..

[Joachim Müller]

edit it with a text editor and see if it contains strange characters like

ï"¿

at the very start, right before

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<?phpIf they are there, delete them.

GauGau

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Done The end result is still gibberish...

[Joachim Müller]

link?

GauGau

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http://photos.ivanchev.org/

Default is english-utf8, select language is available.

[Joachim Müller]

does http://photos.ivanchev.org/index.php?lang=bulgarian (windows-1251 charset) work for you?

GauGau

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Yep! Though it does not select the browser-side encoding as windows-1251 initially... Unicode would be better though ;-) It's sort of perplexing how a default charset is selected in the first place - apache2.conf gives an option for a default (which I set to utf8), then there's browser ability to request a language via the GETs, and then there's a default encoding specified in the language files for Coppermine (windows-1251)...

[Joachim Müller]

try re-converting the windows charset file bulgarian-utf-8.php, using http://www.iconv.com/iconv.htm
You will have to edit the file and replace

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$lang_charset = 'windows-1251';with

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$lang_charset = 'utf-8';. Save it as bulgarian-utf-8.php. Please report if this worked for you.

GauGau

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Done - Negative - I still get the same gibberish, so I'd reckon the converter goes wrong at some point... Did a WINDOWS-1251 -> UTF-8 and WINDOWS-1251 ->UTF8 (what's the difference?!) still the same result.

[Joachim Müller]

hrm, not sure what's wrong. As a workaround, paste the contents of bulgarian.php into bulgarian-utf-8.php and save it. This way, your bulgarian language file will not actually be utf-8, but the language selector on your page is suppossed to work then.

GauGau

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Fixed!! :-) Oh joy! Thanks to the wonderful script at:

http://asuult.net/badaa/convert/con2uni.htm

I am also attaching the final version - Folks shall need to put it into their respective coppermine/lang dir rename it back to .php, and:

chown $apache_uid$:$apache_gid$ bulgarian-utf-8.php
chmod 666 bulgarian-utf-8.php

Ah, that was fun ;-)