Translation [UTF-8] and Lithuanian Characters

[Vytautas_Palubeckas]

Hello,
We are having the following problem for a past few days:

We are translating eGW into Lithuanian language, in translation tool the text we enter looks just fine (for example lithuanian letter Ą looks like Ą), but when we update the database and visit the same page again it gets automatically converted to other characters ( for example: Ǽ instead of Ą ) .

I’ve noticed that trying updating the database manually ( we use MySQL 4 with PHPMyAdmin ) results in displaying the correct character in the web browser window, which is basically fine, however, in translation tools there is no change.

Is there any way to fix this, because, naturally it is not much of convienient changing all of DB entries manually.

System Specification

Windows XP PRO SP 2
NTFS Filesystem
Regional settings all set to Lithuanian
Php 5.1.1
Apache 2
Mysql 4

Following I would like to include parts of php.ini file that i’ve changed , could some of these settings be the cause ?

------------------------ PHP.INI

default_mimetype = “text/html”
;default_charset = “iso-8859-1” /// should i set it to “UTF-8”

mbstring.func_overload = 7 /// maybe value should be left as 0

mbstring.http_input = UTF-8 /// at first i thought this might fix the problem as the .lang file looks corrupted as well

I would appreciate any help regarding this issue…

Sincerly,
Vytautas

[Oscar_Manuel_Gomez_S]

Vytautas Palubeckas escribió:

Hello,
We are having the following problem for a past few days:

We are translating eGW into Lithuanian language, in translation tool the
text we enter looks just fine (for example lithuanian letter Ą looks
like Ą), but when we update the database and visit the same page again
it gets automatically converted to other characters ( for example: Ǽ
instead of Ą ) .

I’ve noticed that trying updating the database manually ( we use MySQL 4
with PHPMyAdmin ) results in displaying the correct character in the web
browser window, which is basically fine, however, in translation tools
there is no change.

Is there any way to fix this, because, naturally it is not much of
convienient changing all of DB entries manually.

There’s no charset defined at this time for lithunian (in fact, there’s
no lithuanian translation), so you must set it first. Since you use
utf-8 (which seems to be the proper one for lithuanian, according to
your mail), then you have to go first and set the “charset” key to
"utf-8" in phpgwapi app by translation tools. The Setup app also has its
own charset key. Once this is set, the strings in the UI will be
interpreted as if they were in utf-8 (maybe you have to logout and
login). If after doing this the strings are still not looking good, you
have to find some way to recode all the phpgw_lt.lang files under
every_app/setup/ dir that you have translated.

Going further, in
http://www.egroupware.org/developer-docs?wikipage=Translation+manager+and+Team
(which seems to be down at this time) are the rest of specifications for
contributing translations. If you’re interested in becoming lithuanian
translator, you’re very welcome to help, because there are only 2
strings translated out of more than 7000, and let’s contact by private
mail for setting better contribution methods.

Regards.

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