Because the forum openSUSE Linux does not support UTF-8 format text with accents, used in the...

[genixinfo]

Because the forum openSUSE Linux does not support UTF-8 format text with accents (UTF-8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) used in language, Portuguese in Brazil?

[DenverD]

genixinfo wrote:
> Because the forum openSUSE Linux does not support UTF-8 format text with
> accents ('UTF-8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8)) used in language, Portuguese in
> Brazil?

a good question which should be (imo) moved to
http://forums.opensuse.org/forums-fe...s-suggestions/

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[hendersj]

Moved from the Looking for forum; quote so NNTP users see the original question.

Because the forum openSUSE Linux does not support UTF-8 format text with accents (UTF-8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) used in language, Portuguese in Brazil?

[hendersj]

I seem to be able to post accented characters just fine here:

��������

Do these show up OK for you?

[genixinfo]

I seem to be able to post accented characters just fine here:

��������

Do these show up OK for you?

Yes, came here legally.



More the question is when is a hyperlink that has �, as in:



Artigo: Conhe�a o openSUSE Linux


Genix Info: Artigo: Conheça o openSUSE Linux


It is not legal when it is a hyperlink.

[ken_yap]

Hmm, let me try that:

Artigo: Conhe�a o openSUSE Linux

Seems to work ok for me. BTW I edited the link in. Perhaps there is a problem when you let the forum software fetch the <title> element.

[pistazienfresser]

Perhaps there is a problem when you let the forum software fetch the <title> element.

That seems to be the 'problem'. Same happens with special characters/letters in German like �, �, �, �, �, �, � (Esszett oder Umlaute) or a long dash, a question mark, etc. if they are part of the fetched title of a webside.
For example:
Fünftes Update für Thunderbird 3 | heise open
Die Woche: Zwangsjacken adé? | heise open
althoght it is not so in the html source code of that original page:

<title>F�nftes Update f�r Thunderbird 3 | heise open</title>
[...]
<meta name="DC.title" content="F�nftes Update f�r Thunderbird 3" />

I do usually use the button "Preview Post" and edit the name of the link (not the url in the link) after that.
In the examples:
F�nftes Update f�r Thunderbird 3 | heise open
Die Woche: Zwangsjacken ad�? | heise open

Hope that will help others,
greetings pistazienfresser

[pistazienfresser]

Maybe this happens because the character is not set to UTF-8 but to ISO-8859-1 (aka latin) in the html page code of the forums websites:

content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

Greetings pistazienfresser
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with: firefox 3.5.9, released 2010-03-30 and openSUSE 11.2

[ken_yap]

Yeah, looks like the forum software is at fault. That first Heisse page correctly declares its charset to be UTF-8 both in the HTTP headers and in a meta tag.

[hcvv]

Please, this is an old one. Several more threads in this Forum. The Forums software tells always it sends ISO-8859-1 Look in your browser at the Document Informattion), but in fact sends UTF-8 when it gets this out of its database (which seems to be in UTF-8). We are still hoping for a better behaviour of the software in a new level. And a new level is being imnplemented now. Thus let us wait and see for a while.