By Canaris on

Hey.

I just started doing some German translations for several modules and I have come upon a repeating error.
In all my "de.po" files there are the so called umlaute Ä, Ö and Ü.

The wierd thing is that when I create content on my website the Ä, Ö and Ü are displayed just fine, but this is NOT the case in text that comes from "de.po" files.

So I figured my editor (I use the Windows XP WordPad, because when I open the "de.po" files with the Text-Editor there are no line-breaks) doesn't save the files correctly. But if that's really the case, then how DO I save them correctly?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Canaris

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ErbAleX’s picture

ErbAleX commented

Hey Canaris.

There are possibly different parameters concerning the delivery of the site causing your problem.

1) the content type charset defined in the templates head: is incompatible with your php output or browser settings
try to alter the "zeichenkodierung" in your firefox' ansicht-menu, to figure out if there are any effects viewable.

2) if the output comes directly from modules, visit my blog, where i offer a solution for the monthly module:
http://www.besser-mit-anthroposophie.at/node/17

3) in some cases you have to include ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8'); to the modules source, if your provider allows this.

4) if the problem is your editor try to alter the charset encoding used by the program. I am sure there are some for Windows but i dont know (Mac&Linuxuser), sorry.

regards, ErbaleX

ErbAleX’s picture

ErbAleX commented

Hey Canaris.

There are possibly different parameters concerning the delivery of the site causing your problem.

1) the content type charset defined in the templates head: is incompatible with your php output or browser settings
try to alter the "zeichenkodierung" in your firefox' ansicht-menu, to figure out if there are any effects viewable.

2) if the output comes directly from modules, visit my blog, where i offer a solution for the monthly module:
http://www.besser-mit-anthroposophie.at/node/17

3) in some cases you have to include ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8'); to the modules source, if your provider allows this.

4) if the problem is your editor try to alter the charset encoding used by the program. I am sure there are some for Windows but i dont know (Mac&Linuxuser), sorry.

regards, ErbaleX

aronboros’s picture

aronboros commented

http://drupal.org/node/11380