Administering a different character set than the local language

Administering a different character set than the local language

by Zane Edwards -
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I am creating a n Bosnian language course which the only way I can add text is to change the language to bosnian and then copy and paste it into the text fields. But the problem is when  administer certain things that have bosnian text (while in english interface, as I cannot really read Bosnian) it messes up the special characters. I can paste the characters back into it while still in english, but when i look at it in Bosnian, it does not read the characters correctly. I have also tried using UTF-8, but that displays question marks in diamonds for the characters. Can someone help me please?

http://devserver.cirnetwork.org/moodle/
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In reply to Zane Edwards

Re: Administering a different character set than the local language

by koen roggemans -
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You are two or three months early with your problem smile
The sollution is UTF-8. From Moodle 1.6 up, all Moodlesites will be UTF-8 encoded. That way it will be possible to combine any languages on the same page, as long as you find a font combining the langugages. For English and Bosnian, that can't be a problem.
I don't know how experimental your site is - you could try with a new installation with English and Bosnian in UTF-8 encoding. Not on productian server and not on an installation with content!
 For now, en and bs have different encodings, so your solution will not work: Bosnian texts should be entered with bosnian encoding.
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