How to make cacti support other language ?

cnlg · Post by **cnlg** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:27 pm

When i create a device with chinese language, the device and data sources menu appear errors,but the Graphs Management menu is ok,any one know why? how to resulve this?

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:50 pm

Couldn't tell you the fix, but there is a solution on the horizon: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=7816

cnlg · Post by **cnlg** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:59 am

thanks

cnlg · Post by **cnlg** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:03 pm

now i have resolve this problem,it is for being php's function eregi_replace() did not support gb2312 charset,i just replace this,then it is ok now!

The Voice Of Wolves · Post by **The Voice Of Wolves** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:55 am

I have the same problem with greek language. Can somebody share the solution?

Thx for you time.

Post by **rony** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:10 am

Database encoding!

Changing your database encoding to UTF8 seems to resolve these issues.

The Voice Of Wolves · Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:12 am

Thx for the post.

I have to say some words to understand the situation here.

I am in a company and we have installed cacti with mysql. Someday someone comes and says to me: "We can't see greek in the page." So I try to fix this damned problem. I set mysql in greek encoding (They had it in default settings) and the data appears right in the database. The only problem is that cacti locks on automate encoding of Western European (ISO). If I change it to ISO-8859-7 the greek appears normally. On refresh or other page-loading action, gets again it default Western European (ISO).

My question is: There is a way to override default encoding of Western European (ISO) with the demanding ISO-8859-7?

Database is mysql 4.0. Don't ask. I asked for mysql update, but they talk to me a crazy story about Debian Linux, Cacti and Mysql Possible Incompability Issues.

Thank you very much for the time spending to help me.

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:26 pm

I think you need to change the encoding in the two file's in <path_cacti>/include. They are top_graph_header.php and top_header.php.

This is where the encoding is/should be specified.

TheWitness

The Voice Of Wolves · Post by **The Voice Of Wolves** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:11 am

I added this line of code:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7" />

on the <head></head> section of the both files, but it seems like didn't effects. Still remains in the same situation.

It looks like there is something like a script that change it.

I added this and before your suggestion and didn't work. This line of code works in every php file or html that has the same problem. In cacti didn't work...

I think there is a special action that at the present time I ignore its existence.

Thx for your time. I really appreciate it.

mrLenin · Post by **mrLenin** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:37 pm

Maybe you are right, I want to check it in the evening.

The Voice Of Wolves · Post by **The Voice Of Wolves** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:57 am

Thx mate.

I search it a little more and I have some more infos/ideas about this. Unfortunately, not a solution yet.

The server php version is 4.0.3. As the time pass, I wonder if I am working at the past and not at the present times. Our Linux administrator stucks in old versions...

I want a little favor from Developers of cacti, if it's not a trouble. Can you give me the best up-to-day configuration of cacti with mysql and php versions? I want to check if there is a fix, that may help me/us in problem's solution...

In our problem now. Searching around, I found a guy offering a solution about encoding in utf8, iso-8859-7 and others, for a php version ( I don't know yet which version it is). This set me in thoughts. The special action that resets encoding in Western European (ISO) is the mechanism of php encoding script? I don't know if there is something like this, but cacti seems like can't control the encoding. Perphaps, cacti sets normally (with the specified line of code: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7" />) into greek encoding but php mechanism didn't understand it and resets it into its default value of Western European. The only possible issue of this to happen is the very old version of php in the Debian Linux Server.

If someone has any idea about encoding problem, I would glad to read it. Thx for your time.

The Voice Of Wolves · Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:38 am

I searched a little more, but i think that i found something. It seems that works for now. I need to test it more to be sure.

The problem was Apache. The httpd.conf (in linux is in /etc/apache/httpd.conf) has an option known as: AddDefaultCharset on. You have to disable it and make it: AddDefaultCharset off. Then your language appears normally.

The only thing that you have to do is to make this part of code:

Code: Select all

# Default charset to iso-8859-1 (http://www.apache.org/info/css-security/).

AddDefaultCharset on

into this one:

Code: Select all

# Default charset to iso-8859-1 (http://www.apache.org/info/css-security/).

# AddDefaultCharset on
AddDefaultCharset off

Maybe there is a best solution than this one, but this one is the only way that I know at present times. In future perphaps I will find a better one.

TEST ENVIROMENT:

Linux Server: Debian
Apache: 1.3.33
PHP: 4.3.10-18 (cli)
MySql: 4.0.24

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