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davide.taddei
PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:25 am 
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hello, in the articles I've created a new form element (textarea type) where I need to save a string with special characters (à, é, ì, etc..).

When I save the article in the DB field it is saved a \u00c0 instead of À so when I print the value of the field in the template appears the code \u00c0 instead of the character.
In the admin interface everything works fine..

How can I display correctly the text in the template too?

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bbolli
PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:08 pm 
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This is no different that using & instead of just the actual character & when saving items in the admin interface. Try using
Code:
À
instead of the actual character and see if it display proper.

As for a more permanent solution I wish I could offer more, being a native English speaker I rarely have to deal with special characters, but definitely am curious if there is a more comprehensive solution.

Found the HTML Friendly Code at:

http://webdesign.about.com/library/bl_htmlcodes.htm
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davide.taddei
PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:46 am 
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Hello, thank you rofr your reply, unfortunately the user that fills the text area needs to copy/paste the text from a word processor so he counldn't replace the characters with HTML entities.
Meantime I solved the problem with a str_replace on the characters code, anyway I would like to know the reason of the problem.

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bbolli
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Davide,

I recently had a major issue at my work which involved the exact same thing, copying and pasting articles in from word processors. If the user isn't copying the article into a text based editor like Notepad or Notepad++, he's copying over all kinds of unnecessary junk. As a result, sometimes the articles were encaplsed in CDATA tags and sometimes they weren't. If you have JCE (Joomla Content Editor) installed, after a test copy and paste of an article, go to the code view, usually the button looking like <>.

I would look at changing the textarea field filter attribute from what it is. If it's set to HTML try raw. This would be in the folder models/forms/myviewname.xml.
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davide.taddei
PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:02 am 
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Hello bbolli, actually in this case I have a text input box. What is strange is that the characters are displayed correctly in the box and with UTF-8 codes in the template

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Are you using Joomla parameters to define the field? Check the below link out for the field type "text" and the filter section.

http://docs.joomla.org/Text_form_field_type
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Yes, of course, I know what we are talking about :-) I defined I new form field (the old Joomla! 1.5 parameters) and what is saved there is correctly displayed in the administrator interface but displays UTF-8 codes on the template and the phpmyadmin interface. Got it?

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