character encoding problem after upgrade to 0.8.7f

cyb · Post by **cyb** » Mon May 31, 2010 3:57 pm

After an upgrade to cacti-0.8.7f, I have a problem with character encoding in descriptions of my hosts as in the snapshot below.

My cacti db is in latin encoding, but that was never a problem pre-upgrade.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: This happens only to a newly created hosts, also editing existing ones and save result in the same mess.

Post by **Linegod** » Mon May 31, 2010 8:29 pm

Don't install 0.8.7f

http://docs.cacti.net/#status_of_cacti_ ... do_not_use

Post by **gandalf** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:51 pm

I opened a antis ticket to track the issue
R.

Post by **TheWitness** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:53 am

Likely due to this:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

More specifically the EN portion.

TheWitness

Post by **TheWitness** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:22 am

Can you please add the following to your top_header.php and top_graph_header.php and let us know if it resolves the issue.

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	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >

I believe that this is browser specific and due to the new "doctype" being the only thing declared relative to i18n, it is reverting to a latin encoding. If we drive the document via the header statement, we will solve the issue.

I think UTF8 is enough of a superset of the latin encoding that is defaulted to resolve this issue.

TheWitness

hulutang · Post by **hulutang** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:02 am

It still doesn't work.

Post by **TheWitness** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:17 am

Sorry, you have to update host.php and data_sources.php. Our German developer tested the changes and they worked fine. So, be assured, the 0.8.7g release will take care of it.

TheWitness

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