Language trouble ~ Forum bb2nuke

New Member Joined: Jun 24, 2008 Posts: 10

Language Trouble in PhpBB. I have some problem with Turkish (Azeri) language in phpBB. When i creat new topic the name of the topic doesn't allow next letters : ə ö ğ ü ç ş ı
I began to find it throw mysql databases. And found that at nuke_bbtopics table understands the symbol & like & . So if I want to write ə he understands this : &601;.

Could you help me with this problem.
PS: I use RavenNuke 2.20.01 Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:20 am

I do not have the Turkish language installed so I cannot test this but it would be interesting to know which character set your database is using. If your hosting provider is based in Turkey then you probably have the correct one.

For clarification though, does this problem only exist in the forums? Can you post a news item for example and that is ok?

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:09 am

This problem exists only in the forums. And I find out that in all versions of phpBB and PhpNuke . I checked the charsets. In the forums there are two charsets , I deleted one but it wasn't changed. The problem here is that the letter "&" goes to the database like " & a m p ; " . But in other modules there isn't such problem.
My hosting isn't Turkish , it's American hosting/
Please, in your database look "topic_title" at the tables "nuke_bbposts_text" and "nuke_bbtopics". I think that this problem is in: modules/Forum/modcp.php or viewtopic.php /

And What do You Think About it ??? Thanx for trying help me Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:37 am

If I am understanding you correctly, you are saying if you use the htmlentity (& a m p ; ) it appears as exactly that when seen on the page.
Therefore when you try to use a special character &601 it appears as &601; and not as the special character.

I would assume the German language is the same so we might have to wait for Susann on this one as she would most likely know if there is something we could try.

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:47 pm

My German umlauts like ä,ü, works within the forum.
You should also test your feeds because with such strange signs I don´t believe they are valid and maybe they are also unredable.
Did you used the turkish lang pack for your forum files ? Maybe this could solve your problem but I´m not sure.

The problem I had in the past with nuke and umlauts I solved directly within the database.

registered · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:01 am

From what I can recall of the phpBB code, it is not going to allow you to use entities or encoded characters... I think. It is actually a security measure as its trying to not allow XSS injection.

I don't know what that character is, but are you not able to type the character from your keyboard? I mean, do you have to use an encoded character?

Also, one last question, again, not sure what you are tying to do exactly, but should the character be this instead:

ə

I am wondering if phpBB allows that. However, I also suspect that with HTML turned off in the forums, even this might not work.