Author Topic: Activity types with special characters doesn't work in cases (Read 410 times)

eclaw · October 19, 2014, 12:29:32 pm

I hope I can explain this problem in a comprehensive way, as english is not my native language. I have tried to search, but can't find anyone with the similar problem. But if this topic has been discussed, I would be happy to be pointed in the right direction.

I am using the Swedish letters (ÅÄÖ) when creating new activity types. After I add the activity type to a case type, all looks fine so far. BUT when I go to a case and klick on "add new activity" the special characters in the activity name has been changed. When I go back to the activity type list I notice that a new activity type has been added, which is similar to the one I added, but with the special characters replaced with other characters.

I have googled my a.. off and looked everywhere for files without utf-8 encoding... now I'm out of ideas. Anyone?
I'm adding some pics to discribe how it looks like.

totten · October 20, 2014, 02:56:46 pm

Thanks. Internally, the Case Type configuration is converted to XML and stored in the DB ("civicrm_case_type.definition"). That XML is marked with encoding ISO-8859-1. If I change it to UTF-8, it seems to work.

Proposed patch with an update to the test-cases to include some non-English/UTF-8 characters.

https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/4411

eclaw · November 11, 2014, 11:17:23 am

Thanks! Seems to work

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