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

[Paul Spencer]

Great, thanks!  I saw you also filed a ticket, we'll make sure this  
gets into Fusion asap.

Cheers

Paul

On 25-Jun-08, at 4:27 AM, Måns Beckman 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.
>
> 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-----
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> ] 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","Christinelundsvägen
> (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","Christinelundsvägen (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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