By Zarevac on

Hearing all about Drupal I gave it a try. I was looking for a good solution and heared a lot about Drupal, so I was thinking about using it for some of our sites. Install went smooth, templating went nice as well and then I got the first dissapointment which was the lack of modules for 6.x. OK, I could survive that no biggy ;-)

The most shocking however is that Drupal seems to be geared towards English/Wester Latin encoding and that it just simply doesnt work with e.g. Cyrillic and other signs. I checked to make sure if it was me, but the encoding says UTF-8 but it just doesnt work?! I checked the forums here but couldnt find anything that helped. It is very dissapointing that Drupal wont work, e.g. when I put it some Cyrillic letters in a content page it garbles things up. And dont blame it on the browser I tried different ones.

My first impression of Drupal was wauw cool, however I am cooling down quickly. I dont know if this community gets many non Enlgish visitors but I thought I just dropped by and post my findings. Perhaps Drupal will be a solution for our NGO's website in the future.

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heine commented

Instead of jumping to conclusions, why not post a detailled description of your problem in the support forum?

It may be as simple as the font not supporting your unicode points.

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Zarevac commented

All the fonts used in the process are/should be supported in unicode.

But I will humor you and post a link to this post in the support forum.

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Zarevac commented

Reading through the archives of Drupal and some reviews of Drupal on other sites I am more leaning towards the fact that UTF-8 is not fully supported in Drupal. Unless proven otherwise I will stick with that because I see little or no info on this issue.

Just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is an editor at a newspaper. They were looking into using Drupal but dropped out because of the same issue. Its too bad though, I was actually liking the script, alas.

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heine commented

Thank you, I found the post on http://drupal.org/node/238040

I don't really care for your observations, I want to fix problems (which might ultimately be more useful for you).
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Zarevac commented

You should care, from time to time I cana ctually say something usefull ;-) (its a joke)

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carlmcdade commented

I posted in your other thread but I forgot to say that abandonia is built on 4.7. There may possibly be some issues with i18n because it was changed exensively between 4.7 and 6.0

Try a test install in 4.7 and see if you have the same probelms.

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Zarevac commented

Thnx, its odd because the site is encoded in UTF-8 so anything that you put in a field should show up normal. I am continuing the discussion on the other topic ;-)

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steve-psngs commented

someone just posted to a link of their drupal 6.1 site that is all in Chinese & it looks like it works, so I guess drupal can handle non-English stuff without much hassle.
http://yx361.com/

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Jeff Burnz commented

I agree with most of the above posts, you have a problem with your site, this is not per se a drupal issue.

I have built a number of sites in Russian / Cryillic & Swedish (accentuated characters such as ä, å, ö) and we I am yet to encounter any serious encoding issues.

Lets try an example right here...

"Телеканал был создан Автономной некоммерческой организацией "ТВ-Новости", учредителем выступило крупнейшее российское информационное агентство " РИА-Новости".

Seems to be working just fine here - like I and the others are trying to point out, you have an issue.

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j4 commented

I am having similar problems. The preview shows up just fine. Some of the tabs are getting translated into Russian (Save button, edit button etc) Language switcher works fine, ie)Russian is in Russian....but the content i type in russian shows up as ????????? after i hit save. I am really flabbergasted. Please somebody help me. I am using drupal 6. site: http://paripoornasanathana.org/ru/content/experiences-divine
If you see the english version, it has more primary links. Why are they disappearing in the russian version. Please help.

Thanks in advance
jaya

Jaya

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bob_the_builder commented

I'm new to drupal, but have been programming for a long time. To me this really sounds like you have set the wrong encoding for your database and/or tables.