Hi Roberto, Can rule out headers then...
The email text you sent showed: <h1>La Ca�a de Az�car</h1> Which means my client doesn't recognise what you pasted into your message as UTF-8. Did the output show the actual accented letters? Entities? or the same marks as above? Based on the headers being correct, it looks more like the original text not being properly encoded - as far as I know ZF does no string manipulation that would corrupt the encoding. I'd suggest taking the file you have with the string, re-saving it as UTF-8, and then deleting and re-typing the text (sounds really weird, but some editors/IDEs can be pretty bad at re-opening files in the wrong encoding without you noticing, esp. on Windows). P.S. I ran the same test you had and I'm getting UTF-8 proper - which editor are you using? Best regards :) Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com OpenID Europe Foundation Member-Subscriber ----- Original Message ---- From: Roberto Bouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pádraic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2007 2:09:21 PM Subject: Re: [fw-general] UTF-8 and Views... weird chars Padraic, Here is the source: ------- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>La Ca�a de Az�car</title> </head> <body> <h1>La Ca�a de Az�car</h1> Encoding: UTF-8<br> La Caa de Azcar<br> </body> </html> -------- But what I'm worried about is that on a plain PHP file I can see the encoding just fine. I'm using the mb_* just as a test. I was using plain controller/view with escape but I never saw the chars fine so I was just testing around. I checked also with Live Headers. Here is the output (I see it fine, but maybe you can catch something). ----- GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.artcubbies.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q= 0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:08:18 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.4 (Fedora) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4 Content-Length: 428 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 ------ Thanks for the tips with the Headers. Thank you for your help. On 10/5/07, Pádraic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Open up your source view for the bad output and check what it contains. If you want to display UTF-8, you need to maintain a UTF-8 encoding at all times. I'm also not sure about all the mb_* contortions you're going through. Why are you converting from UTF-8 to the IANA HTML-ENTITIES? Use Zend_View's escape() method which will run it through htmlspecialchars() and leave any multibyte characters intact. I would also avoid using header() directly - there's a response object floating around your controller layer which can be used to handle headers. You can access it from within a base controller or from the front controller. This is one likely suspect. See: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.response.html#zend.controller.response.headers Do you have tools like Live Headers (Firefox extension) to view the actual headers being sent to your browser? The question marks are a sure sign that the header encoding and output encoding are not matching causing the browser to substitute ? for characters it sees as being malformed. Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com OpenID Europe Foundation Member-Subscriber ----- Original Message ---- From: Roberto Bouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 5, 2007 5:41:24 AM Subject: [fw-general] UTF-8 and Views... weird chars Hello Everyone. I've been battling with this for a while. Now I need some help to try to figure this out. I just want to show on a view accented characters or something like: $str = "La Caña de Azúcar" If I use PHP by itself it works fine. Ex: $str2 = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'); echo $str2 echo $str That code on PHP returns "La Caña de Azúcar" (twice) now if do that piece of code on Zend Framework on the controller like: $this->view->title = $str; $this->view->encoding = "Encoding: " . mb_detect_encoding($str); $this->view->converted = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'HTML-ENTITIES', mb_detect_encoding($str)); I get: La Ca?a de Az?car Encoding: UTF-8 La Caa de Azcar I've set up on the view: $this->setEncoding('UTF-8'); I have set up the header: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); No luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html
