On Friday, August 21, 2015 12:36:59 PM hw wrote: > > Hi, > > any idea why Umlaute are not displayed correctly when they appear in > text generated from the FormBuilder module? > > When looking at the source of the form in the web browser, it has: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE html > PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="de_DE" xml:lang="de_DE"> > > <head> > <title>Jobnummer erzeugen</title> > <link href="/styles/cgiforms.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> > <script type="text/javascript"><!-- hide from old browsers > [...] > > </script> > </head> > <body> > <h3>Jobnummer erzeugen</h3> > <noscript><span class="fb_invalid">Bitte aktivieren Sie JavaScript oder > benutzen Sie einen neueren Webbrowser.</span></noscript> > <p>Sie m�ssen Angaben f�r die <span > class="fb_required">hervorgehobenen</span> Felder machen.</p> > [...] > > > So the header says the encoding is UTF-8. The message template is also > UTF-8: > > sunflo cgi-bin # file > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.1/CGI/FormBuilder/Messages/de.pm > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.1/CGI/FormBuilder/Messages/de.pm: Perl5 > module source, UTF-8 Unicode text > sunflo cgi-bin # > > > Text with Umlauten I put myself into the form, like field labels, are > shown correctly. I have put '@charset "utf-8";' at the beginning of the > style sheet, but it doesn't help. > > How could I fix this problem?
This is probably not the best list for this question, but one possible solution is to html encode it. You can use app-text/recode as follows: # echo 'ü' | recode utf8...html ü Or just use the codes from: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/schreiben/umlaute/umlaute_ASCII_html.html -- Fernando Rodriguez
