Character problems

[dvL-den]

I am having problems on vB 4.1.8!
If name (nick) contains characters for example: ?ool?
When I try to open his profile it shows this:
http://domainname.xxx/member.php?22-%A9ool%99

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /member.php could not be found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Anyway to solve this?

[kh99]

Hmm... I created a user named ?ool™ and the link to the profile looks like this:

http://domainname.xxx/member.php?2-?ool™


and it works OK. Where is the profile link that you're clicking on?

You could try disabling all plugins and see if you still have the same problem. But if you believe it's a bug then you probably should report it at vbulletin.com.

[dvL-den]

Profile link can be anywhere... Example footer (online members)
http://ugly-fx.net/member.php?22-%A9ool%99

Whenever theres an character which is not letter from A-Z or number... it does not works :(

[kh99]

Maybe it has something to do with the settings under "Friendly URLs" and/or your character set. Someone else might know more about that than I do...

[dvL-den]

charcter set?
Where to find that :D

[kh99]

charcter set?
Where to find that :D

That can be set in the config.php file, but I don't think you should change it. If you don't know about it you're probably using the default.

Did you try disabling all plugins? You can do it by editing includes/config.php and putting:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

as the first line, right under the <?php at the top.

See if that makes any difference, then remove that line when you're done.

[dvL-den]

You were right... Friendly URLs
Friendly URL Unicode was on Ignore ... now I set on Convert to UTF-8
Working ;)

Thank you very much kh99!

[zairafusco]

hi,
after running my vb website for a while for the last testing before going public, i changed the charset settings (by language manager settings on the control panel sidebar menu) to have my chat mod working with special characters (i'm talking about ideal chat mod 1.30). Now the chat is working well but the other contents (previously made, as articles, threads, blog posts) are messed up with the special characters, even the control panel text is messed up. If i re-write the content everything is fine, but i can't rewrite the whole content (all my custom descriptions and custom text and so on..)

Going back to charset ISO-8859-1 fix everything (but the chat).. so how can i just use utf-8? Is there a way to make some kind of soft reset that can make the exissting content work with the new charset?

i deeply thank you

[Lynne]

Why not fix the chat instead? Take a look at the database and the charset/collation of the tables it installed and make sure they are the same as the rest of your database.

[zairafusco]

Why not fix the chat instead? Take a look at the database and the charset/collation of the tables it installed and make sure they are the same as the rest of your database.

thanks for your suggestion.. i checjked the db and the chat tables collation is the same of my database...(latin1_swedish_ci).. vbulletin charset was originalli iso-8599-1, and then i selected utf-8 to make the chat work.. i'm a bit confused... maybe i should change the whole vbulletin db collation to utf-8 too?

thank you again

[Lynne]

Did you check both the tables and the fields?

Changing the whole thing to utf-8 isn't easy on an existing database.

[zairafusco]

Did you check both the tables and the fields?

Changing the whole thing to utf-8 isn't easy on an existing database.

i can only see the fields collation, i don't get the link between the working match latin1(db) and utf-8 (vb) and the not working match latin1 (db) and ISO-8859-1(vb).. i'd figure out utf-8 AND utf-8 on both places...

looks like i have to edit all the old stuff to display correctly the special chars in utf-8 mode..

(or drop the chat, though other versions are not for free!)

thank you so much