[Mapbender-dev] json_encode, ISO-8859-1, Ticket 171

[Christoph Baudson]

Thomas Baschetti schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> while exploring http://trac.osgeo.org/mapbender/ticket/171
> i got a little bit stuck.
> The problem seems to in
>
> mod_addWMSfromfilteredList_server.php
>
> the line
>
> $output = $json->encode($resultObj);
>
> which fails if the database is not UTF-8 but ISO-8859-1
> see http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
> "This function only works with UTF-8 encoded data." If you use e.g. 
> german umlauts in ISO you will get "Oberfl" instead of "Oberfläche".
> So, converting values to UTF-8 is necessary, but when and where?
> Right after retrieving the values from the database or just before
> using json_encode? And are other files affected, too?

Hi Thomas,

please check the method "encode" of http/classes/class_json.php

We could make the change there...

Hope this helps

Christoph


>
> Any hints?
>
> Ciao
> Thomas


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