SOLVED - Latest Comments Module - Not displaying accents

[David892]

Hi there,

Following installation and activation, I realised that accents such as à, é ï, ê and others are not rendered by the module. Instead, I see a square. The language of my site is french.

The Jcomments component displays accents fine in the front end, but when I go back end in the "Comments management section" of the component, accents are shown as squares.

I did a little research on the Internet, and the term UTF-8 seems to be the key to my problem. However, I'm not very familiar with this subject, and don't know where to start.

What can I do so that the Latest Comments module displays the accents?

Version of module: 2.5.4
Version of component: 2.1.0.0
Version of Joomla: 1.5.14

Any help would be AMAZING!!!!

Thanks in advance!  

[smart]

Try make small fix:

Open jcomments.class.php and replace code

Code: (php)

$text = htmlspecialchars($text);
$text = html_entity_decode($text);

with

Code: (php)

$text = htmlspecialchars($text);
$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

And wrote me if this fix solves this problem...

[David892]

Ouch!  I replaced the code and it gave me 500+ errors like this one:

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in E:\Inetpub\vhosts\tremblaylecuyer.com\subdomains\hockey\httpdocs\components\com_jcomments\jcomments.class.php on line 721

[smart]

Hmmm... what version PHP do you use? Try to remove line:

Code: (php)

$text = html_entity_decode($text);

[David892]

Hi smart,

I removed the line mentioned above, but it had no impact. 

Also, I found out:

This character: é is showing fine on the module. (back end and front end)
This character: à is rendered as a square and thus does not show. (back end and front end)

[smart]

Hm, try this on demo.joomlatune.com, please. I don't see any problems with accented letters in JComments Latest module

[David892]

You are right. I posted a comment with accented characters, and the front end module displayed them fine (all of them).

We can thus affirm that the module is not the cause. What could it be? A Joomla! issue?

 

[smart]

One more thing: on demo site installed new upcomming version of JComments with fix I've post here (removing one line from jcomments.class.php). If you want I can give you this build for tests...

[David892]

Since I removed the line and it did not change anything, I guess I will wait for the official release.

This accents issue is killing me! 

 

[smart]

I guess I will wait for the official release

as you wish

[David892]

Hey smart,

You want to hear the weirdest thing ever? After trying to better understand my issue, I found out that your Latest Comments Module was displaying ALL ACCENTS fine except ONE.

This character "à" is the only one not displaying. Even more interesting: If I do a capital letter with the same symbol like "À", your modules renders it perfectly!

You must admit that this is quite a weird issue!!!

 

[smart]

This character "à" is the only one not displaying.

I look at this comment: comment-724, it contain this accented letter and this comment correctly displayed in the JComments Latest module published on site...

[David892]

haha that was my test message !     

I guess I'll wait for your next build then! Hopefully it will solve my problem!!! Thanks for your help! 

[David892]

I know this is an old topic, but just in case someone is having the same issue:

UPDATE TO VERSION 2.2 !!!!

It solved everything! All accents displaying PERFECT! Great job on the update!!!!