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

[Matej]

Still the same - I have been looking at the getHTTPObject - could it be possible that it is connected to it somehow? Or with the part of the code where the results are "GET" from MapServer? 

Matej Serc
matej at matnet.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Little 
  To: Matej ; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Special characters - "sh", "ch", "zh" - Central European symbols - part 2


  (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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