[Geomoose-users] Charset encoding for Windows 1256

[Moh.Maher]

Bobb,

Thank you very much for your answer.
But I want to say that the problem has nothing with Mapserver as I tried 
Mapserver without Geomoose and the records were returned in the right 
encoding.
Maybe it is from the server side script (PHP) Geomoose is using .
Yes I'm using Windows.
You can see some good Arabic characters in the snapshot because those are 
just headers (field names) already identified in the identify.html and this 
html was saved in Unicode format.  (if I save the identify.html in Arabic 
Windows 1256 it will display  wrong characters)

But the attributes pulled from the database are not displaying correctly as 
I described before.
I'm not using any special PHP script .. I'm following the same Geomoose 
application.
Any Ideas ??

By the way the links that you have sent me are solving another issue which 
is the Arabic labeling in Mapserver and this is a different problem that was 
solved before.

Best Regards,

Moh.Maher

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From: "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 7:17 AM
To: <mohmaher at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Charset encoding for Windows 1256

> Moh-Maher,
>
> Swinging in the dark here, but it doesn't sound like a GeoMoose core 
> problem, but rather a problem with one of the query steps.  I see that you 
> have other Arabic character displaying, so that leads me to conclude it's 
> only in the processing of the results from the query/Identify.
>
> This could be the result of how MapServer deals with the Query/Identify, 
> or the server side script (are you using PHP on windows for example).
>
> Sorry I can't be of more help, but I don't think this is a GeoMoose 
> specific problem, but rather something related to making the queries 
> themselves.  GeoMoose is just displaying what it receives.
>
> Is you application available online?  There are others here that may be 
> able to help more.
>
> bobb
>
>
>
>
>>>> "Moh.Maher" <mohmaher at hotmail.com> 04/19/09 5:24 AM >>>
> Hi All,
>
> I know it's an old question but I really need to solve that.
>
> Whenever I use the query or identify function inside Geomoose for an 
> Arabic charset (encoding Windows 1256) database records.
>
> I always get it displayed in the side panel as unknown characters 
> (snapshot attached), maybe Geomoose is dealing with it as Unicode.
>
> So my question is :-
> How can I display correctly the Arabic (encoding windows 1256 characters) 
> within the side panel. ??
>
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Moh.Maher
>
>