Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Jesse Thorstad -
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Hello,

I've successfully run a 1.5.4 Moodle site for a long time with no troubles. I just did a new install of 1.7, and the only problem I have is that the > character in the breadcrumb and calendar is replaced with a ?. This happens in every theme that comes with Moodle. I am using English_US for language.

Breadbrumb error

Anyone know why this is and how to fix it? Many thanks!
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Joseph Rézeau -
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From version 1.5 to 1.6 Moodle changed to UTF8 character encoding.
It also changed its breadcrumb "indicator" from
  • right angle quote (guillemotright) »
  • to BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ►
Can you see in your browser the ► character in the breadcrumb at the top of this discussion forum?
Oh, and which browser (and which version and which platform) are you using?
If you see a ? instead of a ► then probably something went wrong with the UTF8 character encoding when you installed your new 1.7 version. Did you do a completely new install or an upgrade from 1.5 ?
Joseph
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Jesse Thorstad -
Using Mac OS X, Firefox, and yes, I DO see the new pointer style in this forum! Thanks for pointing that out.

This is a new 1.7 install. All of my tables were set up with a collation of utf8_unicode_ci, and a type of MyISAM. Are those not good?

If so, is there an easy way to alter those tables to the proper collation and/or type?

Many thanks!

Jesse
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Joseph Rézeau -
Picture of Core developers Picture of Particularly helpful Moodlers Picture of Plugin developers Picture of Testers Picture of Translators
Sorry, I can't help with Mac OS nor with database collation. If your new 1.7 install went ok, then there really should be no problem with the displaying of the BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ►in your Moodle breadcrumb.
Thing you could try:
  • create as a new resource an HTMl page and paste that BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ► into it. When that HTML page is displayed, can you see the BLACK RIGHT-POINTING POINTER ► ?
  • in your browser, can you change the character coding display to ISO... UTF... etc. and do you notice any difference?
Sorry can't help any further...
Joseph

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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Alick Brown -
Any reason why the separators show correctly in Firefox, and not in ie6 [shows a square]?
I'm using 1.7, Chameleon theme, Apache.

ie6 also loses Chameleon's borders...
https://vle.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/

Thanks
Alick
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Alick,
Your Moodle site shows breadcrumb pointed triangle separators correctly both in MSIE 7 and FireFox 2 (Windows).
Joseph
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Alick Brown -
Thanks...
Just an IE6 'feature' then. IE6 is also preventing file upload for a reason I can't work out...
Alick
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Michael Kowalczyk -
okay, i had exactly the same issue.. finnaly ive copied the theme\standard directory of a fresh moodle install to my production site and (make sure u take the same version of moodle) and it all was fine.. no more [] square insted of &#x25BA aka ► ,

and one more thing.. when using the moode html editor in IE ive noticed the ► to appear in html code mode but, not in wysiwyg mode there it is still shown as square .. now by putting ► in <pre ... </pre> tags one can force the ► to appear correctly in wysiwyg mode... or just change the fonttype from trebuchet to arial smile

MiK
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Re: Moodle 1.7: breadcrumb trail shows ? instead of > Anyone know why?

by Jesse Thorstad -
A clean install on a different server fixed my problem as well...

Jesse
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