Non-alphabetical characters can´t be imported well

Non-alphabetical characters can´t be imported well

by Germán Matías -
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If I try to import entries with spanish characters like "á", "ó", etc., no entries are imported. Something fails inside the Glossary module that don´t treat them as valid ones.

If I delete the spanish characters, then it is imported ok.

One file is attached as an example. If you change the "ó" by simples "o" the file is imported, if you leave it like that, the entry is not imported.

Any clue will be very apreciated.

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Re: Non-alphabetical characters can´t be imported well

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Hi Germán,

the problem seems to be that your XML is using the ISO-8859-1 encoding and, before PHP 5.0.2, it was a problem to import such files into Moodle (because the PHP engine wasn't able to convert them properly).

The quickest solution is to convert the file to utf-8, it can be done, under unix, with:
iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 pru.xml > pru_converted.xml

Moodle will import it perfectly, I hope. wink

I've attached the converted file, for your tests...ciao smile
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Re: Non-alphabetical characters can´t be imported well

by Germán Matías -

That was exactly the problem and you suggested a very good solution (as always!)

Thank you very much.

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