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[pedrakos]

When I create an event with special spanish characters, those special characters transforms in strange characters when the event is viewed. My site is using UTF8 encoding and it seems that events are saved with ISO encoding in database.


Does JCal supports UTF8? How can I fix this?

[Mackelito]

seems like it doesn´t support utf8

[V-man]

What editor are you using?

[zen]

This happens in my event description.
The site's encoding is UTF-8 and I'm using JCE editor.

For example, when I use bold (<b>) in my description, it's saved as "&lt;b&gt;" in the database.

[zen]

In my case, I used the DeRal's script file (http://dev.anything-digital.com/Forum/?topic=70.msg274#msg274) and it fixed all the bracket issues in the database.

In the post there was a mention that the bug was going to be fixed in the next release (the thread is from 1.0 beta time). Apparently this bug is still in the current version (1.5).

Is this planned to be fixed in the next update?

This script does the fixing, but you have to run it manually. It would be nice to have this integrated in the JCal system so it's fixed automatically.

[emagin]

I've tried both 1.5 stable and 1.6x beta and both have the same problem.
I think this is related to apostrophes not working properly.
Also, does the script you refer to from other thread fix just the body content or also the titles?

[zen]

It's specifically designed to correct the description area, but you might be able to modify it to correct the title field as well.

If you are after the same thing as me (fixing the title output in events-rss.php: http://dev.anything-digital.com/Forum/1.5.x-General-Discussion/1086-RSS/Page-2.html), I added CDATA in the title to fix the output.

<title><![CDATA[".$row['title']."]]></title>