Zem Contact and russian language

ricoschette · 2007-01-23 14:56:54

can’t put any cyrillic characters in TXP :(

I wonder how have other russian websites done this? I’ve seen there are several in TXP magazine.

ruud · 2007-01-23 15:11:35

Are you still using zem_contact v0.6?
If so, please install zem_contact_reborn version 4.0.3.18 instead, because that fixes the problem with the empty for/id attributes when using non-ascii characters and has been tested extensively with such cyrillic or other non-ascii characters.

ricoschette · 2007-01-23 15:46:57

ok, I’ll try it out right now

so, take a look at the source

screenshot of Hotmail’s mail I sent from website:

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ruud · 2007-01-23 16:15:06

The form itself looks okay. The HTML source shows long strings of characters in the id/for/name attributes of the form tags, but that’s okay since these are only used internally within zem_contact_reborn.

So the only remaining problem is that hotmail doesn’t display cyrillic characters properly. It looks like it was sent as UTF-8, but displayed in a singlebyte charset, which you can see because the labels in the email contain about twice as much characters as they do in your form on the website.

Which browser do you use and can you check which character the browser uses when viewing that email through hotmail. It should be UTF-8. No other character set.

Please test with a normal email client as well… use Outlook (Express) if nothing else is available or perhaps Thunderbird.

ricoschette · 2007-01-23 16:28:19

I don’t use Outlook for security reasons.
And I use Mozilla, Opera, IE.

I just set characters in Opera to utf-8. Don’t know how to do that in IE.

And it shows the same way in Opera and Mozilla.

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ricoschette · 2007-01-23 16:38:16

maybe I should change something inside of zem_contact_reborn plugin?

ruud · 2007-01-23 17:10:10

Can you add the attribute copysender="yes" to the zem_contact tag, so I can test the form and receive a copy of the email myself?

No change inside the plugin should be necessary.

Last edited by ruud (2007-01-23 17:10:29)

ricoschette · 2007-01-23 17:34:35

you mean into this line: <txp:zem_contact copysender=“yes” to=“myname@hotmail.com”>

ruud · 2007-01-23 18:11:32

Yes, and change <txp:zem_contact_text label=“Э-почта” min=5 /> to <txp:zem_contact_email label=“Э-почта” min=5 /> to make sure a valid looking email address is entered.

ricoschette · 2007-01-23 18:36:30

did that

ruud · 2007-01-23 19:31:55

tested with 2 mails… I see the same characters in email as you have on your website, so the email is apparently sent correctly. Now all you need is a mail client that can properly display UTF-8 mails ;)

Last edited by ruud (2007-01-23 19:32:55)

ricoschette · 2007-01-23 19:49:09

great :)

isn’t there a way to play with the plugin. I mean, when I look at it, I see the use of utf-8 and there’s mentioned ISO-8859-1
there’s got to be a way…

anyway, many many tnx to you

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