I really love the idea behind Punbb but unicode support is crucial to me. I hope we'll have 1.3 very soon.
1 2008-04-05 19:50
Re: Cannot reach the limit of 70 characters of topic length. (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
2 2008-04-05 19:29
Topic: Cannot reach the limit of 70 characters of topic length. (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Hi, there!
I've installed punbb 1.2.17. I get the following error while posting a new topic.
"Subjects cannot be longer than 70 characters."
Actually only 35 characters can be entered.
I guess this is due to utf-8 characters that I enter being 2-bytes long each.
My problem is similar to the one described in http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/sup … php?id=244
However, this should have been fixed in 1.2.17, moreover no such issue appears in http://www.punbb-hosting.com (I tested there)
I am new to php and punbb and I'm confused. Please, help!
Niki
3 2008-04-04 12:59
Re: How to change the <pun_char_encoding> parameter to something else? (2 replies, posted in General discussion)
Smartys wrote:
That's set in your language pack, lang/language_name/common.php. I wouldn't change it if I were you, since you're likely to create an awkward charset situation in your database that will be difficult to deal with when full UTF-8 support comes in 1.3.
Thanks, Smartys!
I had the following problem:
I've installed a Bulgarian UTF8 encoded translation. However, the admin page was not translated and shown in English.
If not logged in, I get UTF-8 encoded html pages in browser and iso-8859-1 encoded ones if logged as admin.
While creating a category/forum, they names get encoded/escaped in iso-8859-1 in the form Ӓ. So, each unicode symbol gets written as 5-6 ascii characters. I guess this hits the limit of the category name field in the database, having as a result that category names got stripped somewhere in the 10-12 character.
I fixed this issue by changing the lang/English/common.php lang-encoding parameter from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8. I guess this is safe as ASCII characters under 127 get encoded the same in both encodings.
4 2008-04-03 18:53
Topic: How to change the <pun_char_encoding> parameter to something else? (2 replies, posted in General discussion)
The default seems to be iso-8859-1. I want to change it to UTF-8.