[Geomoose-users] Special characters - "sh", "ch", "zh" - Central European symbols - part 2

[Dan Little]

(Further "Shot in the Dark")

Okay, I would think about doing the following...
1) Remove the Doctype
2) Remove the meta http-equiv tag.

Clear cache, reload, see what happens.




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From: Matej <matej at matnet.net>
To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 9:45:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Special characters - "sh", "ch", "zh" - Central European symbols - part 2

  
Yes, no matter what encoding is set in index.html 
the output in the GeoMoose in the div "content_results_form" is always the same 
- same strange characters (for example the char after "o" in this string: "Naro�nik". There is supposed to be the symbol for 
"ch".).
 
Matej Serc
matej at matnet.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dan Little 
To: Matej ; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:31  PM
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Special  characters - "sh", "ch", "zh" - Central European symbols - part 2

Have you tried changing the encoding settings in the index.html  file?




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 From: Matej <matej at matnet.net>
To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 9:17:31  AM
Subject: Re:  [Geomoose-users] Special characters - "sh", "ch", "zh" - Central European  symbols - part 2

 
Hi,
 
I was looking at MapScript which would be an  option, but due to the following fact I think that there must be an "easier"  solution maybe with some XML settings or something like that - when  I click on the "Identify" tool and the result is open in the div  "content_results_form" as a part of the GeoMoose window, the characters DO NOT  appear correctly. But when I get the direct link to the MapServer  call (vith FireBug) that is being called by Geomoose, e.g. "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/webuser/identif.map&mapxy=468286.9195712629%20125082.02776175489&imgext=468282.0218372162%20125066.72580171067%20468308.97320987994%20125086.39975033894&layers=Boxes&imgsize=974%20711&mode=nquery"  in a separated window or a tab, those characters DO appear correctly. And also  when I set the charset of that window when the data is appearing correctly the  same charset as the GeoMoose window has, they look as they 
should.
 
That is the fact that is bothering me and I  suspect that some method which performs the "call" of the Mapserver from  GeoMoose isn't capable of getting data differently than in utf-8, but it  proves that MapServer is returning the data in the iso-8859.2 charset  correctly.
 
Thank you in advance,
Matej Serc
matej at matnet.net
-----  Original Message ----- 
From: Fischer, Brian 
To: Matej ; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Geomoose-users] Special characters - "sh", "ch","zh" - Central European  symbols - part 2

Matej,
 
I  think this would be a question for the mapserver mailing list.  I have  never used international characters so I have no experience with them.   I wonder if it is an issue with the MapInfo format. I do know mapserver  encodes the attributes for HTML, but will leave them as is if you do  something like this:
 
[DBASE item name],[DBASE item name_esc],[DBASE item  name_raw] 
Item name from the attribute  table of a queried layer. Only attributes for the active query layers are  accessible. Case must be the same as what is stored in the DBASE file.  ArcView, for example, uses all caps for shapefile field names. Available  only when processing query results.
By default the attributes are  encoded especially for HTML representation. In addition the escaped version  (for use in URLs) as well as the raw data is available.
This  is from the mapserver website under the template reference guide  (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/templatereference/referencemanual-all-pages).   Maybe it wonʼt do this for MapInfo files.
 
Just  an idea,
Brian
 
Brian  Fischer
Houston  Engineering, Inc.
Maple  Grove, MN
(763)  493-4522
 
From:Matej  [mailto:matej at matnet.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:36  PM
To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Geomoose-users] Special characters - "sh", "ch","zh" - Central European  symbols - part 2
 
Hi,
 
I have been  further investigating this issue and I am out of ideas what to do. Let me  explain more. I have data with those symbols in a MapInfo (.TAB file has the  entry !charset WindowsLatin2 for charset definition). As I mentioned before,  MapServer returns correct data and when I open it in the different browser  everything is displayed as it should be.
But when the  results are open in the div inside geomoose, it is always (and I mean  always) displayed in utf-8 encoding. I have found out that it is typical  behaveour for setRequestHeader to always return data in utf-8. I tried  adding "charset=iso-8859-2" to those two setRequestHeader calls, but I get  no different results. 
Now I don't know  if I should also write on the MapServer's mailing list if there is a chance  to convert the data from mode=nquery to specified encoding since I think  that I MUST get the results of the query in utf-8 from Mapserver otherwise  this won't work. But searching around, there is no option for that. 
 
Maybe there is a  way of replacement some characters before displaying them? 
 
Thank you for any  help in advance,
Matej  Serc
matej at matnet.net



      
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