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Bug 414361

Summary:	Umlauts truncate text
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann>
Component:	EclipseCon	Assignee:	Anne Jacko <anne.jacko>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	chris.guindon, nathan
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Stephan Herrmann

2013-08-03 10:33:21 EDT

Websites of previous EclipseCons truncate the text of speaker bios at the first umlaut.

At least that's what it looks like when looking at

   http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/user/241

The text originally showed as

   Stephan Herrmann received his Ph.D. at Technische Universität Berlin in 2002 ...

but now (when I tried to re-use that bio for my next submission :)) I see

   Stephan Herrmann received his Ph.D. at Technische Universit<eot>

The same effect can be seen here:
   http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/users/18 ("Achim L<eot>" should be Lörke ...)
   

The new site for ECE 2013 doesn't seem to have this problem (yet).

Comment 1 Anne Jacko

2013-08-06 01:18:25 EDT

Chris or Nathan, do we still have an issue with special characters as this bug describes? If so, will it go away when we convert to Drupal 7?

Comment 2 Nathan Gervais

2013-08-06 10:04:57 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Chris or Nathan, do we still have an issue with special characters as this
> bug describes? If so, will it go away when we convert to Drupal 7?

Chris is on holidays this week, however I believe this is a solvable issue.

Comment 3 Christopher Guindon

2013-09-19 15:30:25 EDT

Hi Stephan,

thank you for reporting this problem. Unfortunately, the only way for you to use those special characters in your bio is to use the entity number or entity name. 

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp


This summer, we migrated the EclipseCon website to Drupal 7. The first conference to use this new codebase is EclipseCon NA 2014. I can confirm that umlauts are working properly on the new platform. You wont need to use the entity name at this point.

You can see it from my bio:
https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/user/1

I did a test with your account on econ2012 using:

Stephan Herrmann received his Ph.D. at Technische Universit&auml;t

and it seems to be working!

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/users/241

Comment 4 Stephan Herrmann

2013-09-19 16:13:51 EDT

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for looking into this.

Yea, probably it was just some one-time data conversion that ate the rest of the text.

Using an html entity is not a problem.

thanks.

Comment 5 Christopher Guindon

2013-09-19 17:09:12 EDT

(In reply to Stephan Herrmann from comment #4)
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> Thanks for looking into this.
> 
> Yea, probably it was just some one-time data conversion that ate the rest of
> the text.
> 
> Using an html entity is not a problem.
> 
> thanks.

Great! Thank you for understanding!

Cheers!