It was that, that fixed it all. It was the encoding on the IDE. Thank you guys for all your help. I really appreciate it.
On 10/5/07, Pádraic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's possibly it ;) > > If you can't convert the whole file (per Andries suggestions) I'd suggest > saving to UTF-8, and then re-typing any accented chars (very important step) > and saving again - just makes sure the new encoding takes hold instead of > leaving older chars still as MacEncode crap ;). Editors are horribly good at > telling you something is UTF-8 when it's actually not. > > Paddy > > > Pádraic Brady > > http://blog.astrumfutura.com > http://www.patternsforphp.com > OpenID Europe Foundation Member-Subscriber <http://www.openideurope.eu/> > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Roberto Bouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pádraic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 5, 2007 3:24:32 PM > Subject: Re: [fw-general] UTF-8 and Views... weird chars > > Padraic, > > I'm using right now EClipse with the PDT PlugIn. I notice that the > encoding of the editor (the general preference for all the plugins) was > MacEncode. I don't know if this is affecting the .php and .phtml files I'm > generating so I changed it to UTF-8 (But I haven't saved the file yet). let > me do that and I let you know. > > If this is the case. That means that all the files that manipulates the > string(s) need to be in UTF-8? > > Again, thanks for your prompt answer. > > Roberto. > > On 10/5/07, Pádraic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 <http://www.openideurope.eu/> > > > > > > ----- 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<http://www.openideurope.eu/> > > > > > > > > > ----- 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. 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