Forum OpenACS Development: Re: User Smart Search Widget with Ajax

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8: Re: User Smart Search Widget with Ajax (response to 7)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 09/06/07 10:10 PM
Hi Eduardo,

I'm happy to hear my widget was helpful to you. What kind of encoding problems are you having? What do your search results look like?

Ryan

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9: Re: User Smart Search Widget with Ajax (response to 8)
Posted by Eduardo Santos on 09/06/07 10:18 PM
In the results box, everytime I have a Latin character, such as á or ç I see this in the result: �

Do you have any ideas on how to fix it?

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10: Re: User Smart Search Widget with Ajax (response to 9)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 09/07/07 03:57 PM
It seems to me that you need to quote the string returned by search-users.tcl. But it might be more complicated than that.

My understanding of character encoding is a bit hazy, but this (old) thread might help:

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=28543

Good luck

Ryan

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11: Re: User Smart Search Widget with Ajax (response to 10)
Posted by Eduardo Santos on 09/10/07 08:41 PM
Thank you very much for you help again, Ryan. Afther a long research, I found the answer in the link that you gave me. I've changed the following line in the search-users.tcl file:

ns_write [encoding convertto utf-8 $response]

I'm forcing the encoding to be utf-8. It seems to me like ns_write is ignoring the server's encoding (possibly an AOLServer bug). In your standard exit:

ns_write $response

the HTML response to the browser gets the wrong encoding, but the ns_log command, for example, has the right server encoding. It's an workaround but it's working.