Username with non-ascii characters

Joined: Oct 04, 2008 Posts: 17

Some languages have non-ascii characters like German, Scandinavian and Spanish. This can cause problems in PHP-Nuke sometimes. I have had problem with usernames with Swedish non-ascii characters in Live Chat, where the non-ascii characters are wrongly displayed. I think I have found a fix that to me seems to work, but I want to ask, if there is a better solution:

class.chat.php
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Code:

$message = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($message));

Change to:

Code:

$message = utf8_decode(mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($message)));

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Code:

$response = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>';

Change to:

Code:

$response = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>';

Code Authors · Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 249

Looks good to me.
I am assuming your database isn't using UTF-8.

The sooner *nuke moves to full UTF-8 throughout it will finally get rid of problems like this.

Joined: Oct 04, 2008 Posts: 17

I have been using ISO-8859-1 on my productive site now a few days and it works OK now for also usernames with non-ascii characters.