UTF-8 and danish names of days

davidcrickett · Post by **davidcrickett** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:12 pm

I can't get my (newly) installed (latest beta) version to show the names of the danish weekdays properly, for æ ø å it shows only weird signs.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:22 pm

Not in my calendar, in the date. Hm, not much activity here...

Mumbo Jumbo · Post by **Mumbo Jumbo** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:24 pm

For example, saturday in danish is lørdag, and the ø gets scrambled in the entry date - but nowhere else on the UTF-8 site. So I reckon the entry date has another origin, and where to change the date to UTF-8 or to call another PHP UTF-8 date form?
Is this forum totally dead or what?

dma147 · Post by **dma147** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:04 pm

Hi...

this forum is not dead but why should one answer when he doesn't know the correct answer? *g*

It seems, that the only one who could know a solution for your problem, garvinhicking, is in his long weekend without pc. He will be back on Tuesday.

Please be patient.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:23 pm

Okay, thanks!

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:55 pm

I'm back.

The reason why you get wrong output, is that s9y is not using the correct locale on the server for date output.

Look in your lang/serendipity_lang_da.inc.php file. There it says:

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@define('DATE_LOCALES', 'danish, da, da_DK, da_DK.ISO8859-1');

You might need to change your danish/da or da_DK locale to be UTF-8 instead of ISO. Or you edit that language file and set a "da_DK.UTF-8" as the first entry; or whatever the name of your DA language locale file is on your webserver. When in doubt, ask your nice server admin.

Best regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:27 pm

Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work.

davidcrickett · Post by **davidcrickett** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:31 pm

I even went to the lang/UTF-8/serendipity_lang_da.inc.php too!

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:45 pm

Did you have a talk with your server admin and asked him about the right LOCALE to use?

Regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:52 pm

No, but I've tried this before and even looken up the danish locale here http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~pesca/locales.html - further down in the document there's something about using PHPs strftime() variables?(Standard: "%s")');

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:28 pm

Just because the locale is listed there does not necessarily mean that the locale is installed and available on your server. You need to ask the admin if the locale you try to use is installed there...

Regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:25 pm

Okay, I get it

I have now asked my very nice server admin. But logically, why shouldn't it be installed on a _danish_ server?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:42 pm

Well, there are also a lot of german servers that either have no german locale, or only have the ISO-Locale and not the UTF-8 one...

Regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:11 pm

I solved it by taking away the name of the day here, like this

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@define('DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY', '%e. %B %Y');

davidcrickett · Post by **davidcrickett** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:30 pm

No, I didn't solve it, I got an error message, so... I'm waiting for my nice admin to tell me if I have the right locale installed...