[Server] Problem with special characters in name of contents

[Damien Laureaux]

When you enter a name for a content with special character, it save it with another specials characters (HMTL)

Example : for "Météo", it save it with "Météo"

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

At first I thought this was going to be an issue - until I discovered I was being a little harsh with converting htmlentities...

There should be a fix on its way (pending test)

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

That was said with haste... after further testing this will require much more investigation... there seems to be some conversion happening somewhere that is unclear to me.

I will commit the changes I have made as they do improve the situation further - you now get Météo in the layout grid but Météo when you come to design the layout...

I will investigate and open as a bug for 1.1

[Damien Laureaux (timoa)]

I will investigate when 1.0 get out but i think is the problem about iso8859-1 and UTF8 (Météo)...

htmlentities() coverrt the UTF8 (Météo) in html (Météo) and I think if you store value in UTF8 on DB, it's important to show value with utf8_decode() or something else...

I will study this bug for 1.1

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

Hi Damien

I'm pretty sure Dan already knows exactly what's wrong - he spent some time working on it the other night. The problem we now have is figuring out how to re-introduce special characters without opening big security holes.

By all means take a look, but I think Dan has this covered already.

A

[Stefan (st-haack)]

Probably related: If I use special chars like Ä,Ö,Ü etc. items where not displayed at all. e.g. in Layout list, if i name ONE layout that way the WHOLE list is no longer displayed. Trying to schedule something fails as well.

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

Thanks Stefan

Dan has made a minor patch which may or may not solve part of the problem for you in 1.0.0.

The release notes for 1.0.0 will explicitly say that special characters are not supported anywhere in Xibo for the whole 1.0 series. The new development 1.1 series will work towards this with a view to having support in a stable version for 1.2.0

Cheers

Alex

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

Fixed in 1.3.0 branch currently for new installs but upgrade script still needs to be written to convert existing content over.

[LoJo (ljoets)]

I noticed that if a name layout has accentued characters, it's impossible to duplicate it with the copy button. The window is empty. I solved this bug by retyping the layout name without any accents like there : https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/102922

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

Yes. Please read the release notes. Unicode characters are not supported in any currently available Xibo version. They will be starting with Xibo 1.3.0 server.