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Bug 231185

Summary:

[Clean the Graffiti] Portal pages encoded with Big5 causes rendering issues

Product:

Community

Reporter:

Gabe O'Brien <gabe.obrien>

Component:

Project Management & Portal

Assignee:

Portal Bugzilla Dummy Inbox <portal-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

karl.matthias

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Big5 encoding (wrong)	none
UT-8 Encoding (right)	none
Error in Molly Code's name in email	none

Description Gabe O'Brien

2008-05-08 15:13:40 EDT

While working on the 'Super Fantastic Submissions System' addition to the Portal I discovered that the Portals web pages are encoding with Big5 and not UTF-8.  The Big5 encoding causes non English characters like accented vowels, Japanese, Chinese and so on, to no be rendered properly.

To fix this I added the line below to $extraHtmlHeaders in portal.php.
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' />

See the attached screens shots for the comparison. If you have any interest in reading up on PHP and page encoding see the link below.

LINK:
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets

Comment 1 Gabe O'Brien

2008-05-08 15:14:13 EDT

Created attachment 99359 [details]
Big5 encoding (wrong)

Comment 2 Gabe O'Brien

2008-05-08 15:14:53 EDT

Created attachment 99360 [details]
UT-8 Encoding (right)

Comment 3 Gabe O'Brien

2008-05-08 15:19:09 EDT

Code has been checked in to CVS and will be live with the next release of the Portal.  I am marking this bug as 'fixed'.  If you see any issues related to this fix please reopen and comment.

Comment 4 Karl Matthias

2008-05-08 15:24:51 EDT

+1

Comment 5 Karl Matthias

2008-05-12 12:22:40 EDT

Released or closed Friday in STAGING_215.  Please see final comments for actual resolution status.  This notice does not imply any resolution other than that already stated.

Comment 6 Karl Matthias

2008-05-12 19:10:44 EDT

There is now something wrong with the encoding in the display (and probably sending) of text emails.  See screenshot.  Re-opening.

Comment 7 Karl Matthias

2008-05-12 19:11:29 EDT

Created attachment 99843 [details]
Error in Molly Code's name in email

Comment 8 Gabe O'Brien

2008-05-13 15:07:07 EDT

The test pages were still being encoded with Big5, which is now fixed in code and will be live with next roll out of the portal.

The issue with the screen shot has more to do with sending plain text versus HTML emails, so I made bug #231185 block this bug.  The tests all had the odd '=?utf-8=' string before I made any of the changes from Big5 to UTF8.

Comment 9 Wayne Beaton

2011-11-11 14:46:27 EST

We are no longer making significant changes in the existing portal. Marking as WONTFIX.