Umlaut - disappearing entries

[stevieb]

Hi there!

I just discovered, that entries containing umlaut will not be saved. The specific entry is fine till umlaut like

Höfinger

will only show

H

...

Where do I fix this?

Thank you! Stephan

 

[stanbusk]

By default MLM creates your database table as unicode UTF-8. Make sure your web hosting service has set the encoding properly.

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[stevieb]

Hi Stan,

i am still fighting my umlaut problem.

Entering in the input fields:
...
firstname=Jörg
lastname=Kälbli

the link lm.php?subscribe... shows √∂ as ö √§ as ä etc.
so the html syntax is used. This will cut the word right at the umlaut

Testing with ö and ü works perfect, as does %C3%B6 or %C3%A4

Why and where does the replacement happen? How can I modify?

cheers, Stephan

 

[stanbusk]

Is that when suing one off the subscription form? Which one?

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[stevieb]

Yes!

lm.php?cmd=subscribe&list=Newsletter&email=joerg@k√§lbli.at&firstname=Jörg&lastname=Kälbli&company=&opt2=new&opt3=

Cheersm Stephan

 

[stevieb]

oh, the files name.. it´s in all of them.

I found a solution for now. But will this bring up other issues?

I changed

if ( isset( $_REQUEST['firstname'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['firstname'] ) ) { $firstname_raw = $_REQUEST['firstname']; $firstname = htmlentities( $firstname_raw, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' ); }

to

if ( isset( $_REQUEST['firstname'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['firstname'] ) ) { $firstname = $_REQUEST['firstname']; }

cheers, Stephan