TOPIC: problem when sending comments in arabic

Hello,

When I click on send, the letters (written in arabic) in the comments return to a question marks.

Please see the settings and the problem below.

Thankyou in advance.


Best Regards

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your website is in UTF-8? The database too is in UTF-8?

Daniel Dimitrov wrote:

your website is in UTF-8? The database too is in UTF-8?

Dear Daniel,
I'm using joomla 1.5.x with !joomlacomment 3.2.6
I had the same problem and i doubled checked my website and database. they are in UTF-8.
After i submit comment then it becomes ????. i went to see Table but it shows ???? too in Comment Field.

What else should i check?

Regards,

Is utf-8 selected in content settings?

Thanks for quick reply,
yes, Local charset: utf-8 is set.
actually, i am not using arabic but other language, but the same symtom. it is called Khmer unicode font.
when i posted article, with Khmer unicode font, it worked fine . therefore, i am not sure what was wrong.
as well, the captcha image doesn't display. php-gd 2.0 is installed.

please help!

Hi Daniel,
At the end i got it works after installed all fresh database and joomla using utf-8.
But i got another problem, is that some characters become question mark box. <?>
I went to see in database comment field and all characters is ok but only displaying in front-end (some character are question mark box).

How can i how this?

Regards,

go to the backend -jocoment -> content settigns-> security

and look at word lenght and so on. Change the settings to -1. This should solve it. The function that we use there are not utf-8 aware - this is changed for 4.0.
Greetings!
Daniel

Hi Daniel,

You are champion! It works.
You are so helpful and quick response.

Thanks,

I have the same problem using Persian (fa-IR) language,
I am using
joomla 1.5
Joomlacomment 4.0

default char set for joomla database is UTF8 {utf8-general-ci (Unicode (Multilingual) ,case-insensitive )}

Joomlacomment setting:
comment setting>Local charset: is utf8

but the problem was with comment char set in the database which is (latin1-swedish-ci)
I am not an expert to say what causes comment system to use this charset, unlike the other part of the database, but after changing all table setting to utf8-general-ci the problem solved,

also the "max length" fields in security tab are enable and working fine.

my suggestion is:
1- if the database charset is setting by your package during installation, please change it to utf8-general-ci
2- if I should change something to avoid this, in new installation please let me know.

Thanks for the great job