I have problem with non english characters in automatic notification email and when sending messages from message center. Any solution?

added to release notes as fixed for next release.

Hope it will be soon because it's a huge problem when the portal default language is not english.

Hi , when is new release expected. 

Any news when the new release will be available? This is really a problem for an existing website ... and it has been to long now!

A new release is coming tomorrow. You can track progress for each release now.
http://www.activemodules.com/active...k-tracker/

Sorry but there is still problem with non english characters. When writing on my profile wall it's ok but when looking at the Members directory where the last news is displayed it's written wrong and it's the same on my profile above the profile picture where the last news is displayed.
On wall: Fredag och på väg in till Lund.
Members dir. and profile page above profile picture: Fredag och på väg in till Lund.

I have just upgraded to latest version of AS and still have the same problem with non english characters? Isn't it solved for this release?

Hi Sten,

there have been changes in Message Templates with the latest releases. Did you upgrade your Message templates ?
I just checked my message center with special german characters (ÄÜÖß) and everything looks fine.

David

It's not the Message templates generating the wrong characters.
In the ProfileView template it's [AS:PROFILE:USERSTATUS] generating the strange characters and in the MembersList template it's [AS:PROFILE:STATUS]
Can't see that these two templates have changed in the new version?

You are right. I remember that I deleted user status in Memberlist template because of this. I found another tag in group edit template (group description). I think all these issues are related to missing htmlencode/decode calls in the sources of AS. Maybe we should ask Will to open a new internationalization thread to collect all these isues. I have the feeling that this would help to raise AS to a higher quality level regarding this.

Agree. I have had the problem since first installation and it doesn't look nice for people using the AS when it's displayed with strange ASCII characters. I have created a ticket again ... hope for a solution soon.

Hi Sten,

how did you do that ? Ist there a ticket system or at least a ticket form somewhere ? I didn´t find anything.
I would like to open one too since this encoding/decoding problem on the group edit template (e.g. asp textbox with id="txtGroupDesc") is a show stopper for my project. (see attached screenshot)

David

Sten,

I have a workaround for you !

I thought there must be a way to inject some javscript code to do the html decoding job. And, guess what, there is an quite easy js workaround.
So here is what I did:
1. Figure out what kind of HTML tag is surrounding the text with weird ascii characters in it (span, textarea, input type text,...) and write down its id. (E.g. as9Stat is the id of span tag in profile view, which is not correctly decoded
2. Figure out which AS template is related to your view. (e.g. profileview)
3. Open design view in AS admin and edit the aprop. template.
4. Add the javascript code to the BOTTOM of the template (see jpg)
5. Modify the method call getelementById() to suit your needs. (parameter =id)
6. If your tag is a div, span or textarea tag, leave the property .innerText, otherwise if you are dealing with input tags change it to .value

That´s it. Now this tag shows up correctly decoded characters on the client side. Of course this is really quick and dirty and as an C# developer I would rather fire up VS and modify the AS sources but unfortunately I don´t have them ;-)


David

Under Community --> Quick Links --> Help desk you'll find the help desk for customers with current support agreements.
I have reported the issue here and they have been able to reproduce it and have answered that they will fix it asap.

Thanks for the workaround.

Import of Ventrian News RSS into Group or Profile http://www.ventrian.com/Support/Pro...fault.aspx In  Journal item template we  replaced [ AS:JOURNALINFO:DI:SUMMARY ] with this < span name="RSSimportBody" >[ AS:JOURNALINFO:DI:SUMMARY ]< /span > and then added script to page (can even be addet to view template) < script type= "text/javascript">   function html_entity_decode(string) {      var temphtml=document.createElement('textarea');    temphtml.innerHTML = string;    return temphtml.value; }  $(document).ready(function() {       var myelem=document.getElementsByName('RSSimportBody');      // alert(myelem.length); for (var i = 0; i< p="">/p> { //myelem.innerText myelem.innerText=html_entity_decode(myelem.innerText); }   }); < /script >