Re: [Xotcl] Encoding problems with web application

From: Nikos <nicolas_at_maich.gr>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:53:22 +0200

Erwin Sistinger wrote:

>Hello,
>
>since 1 year i have had a small xotcl web application running on a server
>with Redhat Linux (don´t know the version, changed since), xotcl 1.1 (i´m
>using the actiweb packages), mysql 3.23 and mysqltcl installed on it.
>A few weeks ago the admin of the server upgraded to a new redhat version and
>also to mysql 4.1.14. Since then the encoding of the web pages my
>application delivered was not correct anymore - characters like ü or ä
>weren´t displayed.
>
>
You might try changing the system encoding of the shell, e.g.

"encoding system utf-8"

regards,

nikos

>I changed the charset-information in the html-header to utf8, converted my
>old database (which was in iso88591) to utf8 and upgraded to mysqltcl 3.0.1
>- still no utf8-characters in the html-pages. I tried to find a solution
>within the actiweb code but although i found some lines with "encoding" in I
>it don´t really know what is happening in there - could anybody please give
>me a small hint?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Erwin
>
>the server´s configuration:
>Redhat Linux 3.0ES
>xotcl 1.1 (i´m using the actiweb packages)
>mysqltcl 3.0.1
>mysql 4.1.14
>
>
>