[mapguide-users] Get Garbled in SelectionPanel (fusion)

[Paul Spencer]

Darn - ok, I just went and looked at what utf8_encode actually does  
(!) and its not what we want in this case, it encodes iso 8895-1  
characters as utf8 which is probably the generally useful case for  
most people but doesn't apply to double byte character sets.

I really don't understand character encoding at all, but I am willing  
to incorporate changes into fusion to make this work as long as it is  
generic enough to work in the common cases that I deal with too.   
Unfortunately I don't have the time to put into becoming educated  
about this right now ...

Can you spend some time looking into these functions (and the user  
comments that follow):

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/book.iconv.php

and let us know what you find out?

Cheers

Paul

On 24-Jun-08, at 1:41 AM, D.Ootaka wrote:

>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> I tried to wrap the output in utf8_encode, but not good...
>
> 1. wrap $result
>
> Selection.php / Line 144
> echo utf8_encode(var2json($result));
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18084122/utf8_encode_result.png
> utf8_encode_result.png
>
> 2. wrap property value
>
> Selection.php / Line 132
> for($k=0; $k<count($properties->$layerName->values[$j]); $k++){
>    $result->$layerName->values[$iIndice][$k] =
> utf8_encode($properties->$layerName->values[$j][$k]);
> }
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18084122/utf8_encode_value.png
> utf8_encode_value.png
>
> Regards.
>
> Ootaka
>
>
> Paul Spencer-5 wrote:
>>
>> Um, I would expect that this is because the data coming from the
>> fusion backend is not being properly encoded.  This came up recently
>> on the list and the proposed solution was to wrap output of text in
>> the utf8_encode function.
>>
>> For the selection panel, this would probably be coming from mapguide/
>> php/Selection.php - if you modify this file to wrap the output in
>> utf8_encode and it works, please let us know.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
> -- 
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Get-Garbled-in-SelectionPanel-%28fusion%29-tp18064719p18084122.html
> Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> _______________________________________________
> mapguide-users mailing list
> mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users