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

Wed Jun 25 04:35:32 EDT 2008

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Måns Beckman
<mans.beckman at manandmachine.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Found a way to fix it!
>
> I have tried both with my own datasets and the datasets with Japanese characters in them and my fix seems to work for both.
>
> I'm not sure if I should post the fix here or on the fusion mail list, so if the right person just could have a look at it, I hope that the right person reads this email, and patch the code.

sharing this sort of info on the mailing list is good,
trac is the place to find or file the bug and post your patch

http://trac.osgeo.org/fusion/

>
> Ok, so in \WebServerExtensions\www\fusion\MapGuide\php\Utilities.php
>
> Change row 863 from
> $value = htmlentities($value);
> To
> $value = htmlentities($value,ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8');
>
> That would do the trick.
>
> Best regards
> Måns
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] För Måns Beckman
> Skickat: den 24 juni 2008 15:13
> Till: MapGuide Users Mail List
> Ämne: SV: [mapguide-users] Get Garbled in SelectionPanel (fusion)
>
> Hi,
>
> I have had a quick look at this because I have the same problem with Swedish chars "ÅÄÖåäö". I didn't get the utf8_encode to work for me either, but I did see some interesting things in the JSON code.
>
> Here is the output I get when I select one feature in the map.
>
> {"layers":["Vägar-Text"],"extents":{"minx":93434.546699998,"miny":6217429.1614999,"maxx":102313.2338
> ,"maxy":6224177.9349999},"Vägar-Text":{"propertynames":["FeatId","GATUNAMN","VAGNR","ZOOMLEVEL"],"propertyvalues"
> :["FeatId","GATUNAMN","vägnummer","ZOOMLEVEL"],"propertytypes":[7,9,9,9],"metadatanames":["dimension"
> ,"bbox","center","area","length"],"numelements":1,"values":[["1518","Christinelundsv&Atilde;&curren;gen
>  (111)","111","level0"]],"metadata":[["","","","",""]]}}
>
>
>
> What I think is really interesting is that:
> The layers property is encoded correct - "layers":["Vägar-Text"],"
> The property values are encoded correct - "propertyvalues":["FeatId","GATUNAMN","vägnummer","ZOOMLEVEL"]
> But the values are encoded wrong - "values":[["1518","Christinelundsv&Atilde;&curren;gen (111)","111","level0"]] should be "values":[["1518","Christinelundsvägen (111)","111","level0"]]
>
>
>
> The same data displays OK in the Ajax-viewer so it's not the values that are wrong. I'm kind of guessing that the error is in the place where we get the values from, and should be corrected there, and not in Selection.php.
>
> Best regards
> Måns
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] För Paul Spencer
> Skickat: den 24 juni 2008 12:58
> Till: MapGuide Users Mail List
> Ämne: Re: [mapguide-users] Get Garbled in SelectionPanel (fusion)
>
> 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
>>>
>>
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