[Geomoose-users] Charset encoding for Windows 1256

[Matej]

Hello,

I was able to solve similar (but I am not sure if the same) problems with 
saving all the data in Postgresql database and perform conversions there 
(client encoding) before sending it out. There seems to be some limitation 
of some AJAX functions, I think it was getHTTPObject affected in a way that 
it can only return UTF8 data successfully.

I spent a significant amount of time researching this and it is not a 
primary Geomoose failure, neither it is a Mapserver's one (calling it 
directly the output was normal in my case too), it even worked in Firefox if 
I recall correctly, but not in IE.

Hope this helps.

Matej Serc
matej at matnet.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moh.Maher" <mohmaher at hotmail.com>
To: "Geomoose Users" <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Charset encoding for Windows 1256


> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>>
>>
>
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