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#1 2011-08-06 22:16:40
- saccade
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- From: Neubeuern, Germany
- Registered: 2004-11-05
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Search input with Umlauts
Hi, I hope this isn’t a stupid question:
For the first time in my Textpattern-life on different servers I have trouble with the search input when used with german umlauts – e.g. searching for a name like “Döbrich”.
It won’t find anything, and it transforms the term “Döbrich” to “D%C3%B6brich”.
Also in the URL: http://hochschulgemeinde.de/index.php?q=D%25C3%25B6brich
There is no problem when I correct the URLadress in the part after ?= directly, then it will search correctly.
(There are definitely results, when using this http://hochschulgemeinde.de/index.php?q=Döbrich )
You can try this on: http://hochschulgemeinde.de
My head correctly defines
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
So I think it maybe there’s something to do on the server configuration?
But what?
Can I do something in the htaccess?
Help very welcome. Thanks in advance!
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
The URL should be:
http://hochschulgemeinde.de/index.php?q=D%C3%B6brich
Looks like something is doing an url_encode() twice.
Which TXP version is this, because I can’t reproduce this elsewhere?
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#3 2011-08-07 08:27:42
- saccade
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
Hi ruud,
thanks. I think I should have looked closer – I didn’t notice the difference between both url_encodes.
Sorry if my TXP version causes trouble: it’s has been 4.4.0 r3521
now I just updated to 4.4.1 r3577 – but it’s just the same here.
Edit And upgrading to the newest r3584 didn’t help. Just the same behaviour.
Last edited by saccade (2011-08-07 08:50:34)
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#4 2011-08-07 09:37:46
- saccade
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
A detailed diagnosis shows these character-set-settings:
Charset (default/config): latin1/latin1
character_set_client: latin1
character_set_connection: latin1
character_set_database: latin1
character_set_filesystem: binary
character_set_results: latin1
character_set_server: latin1
character_set_system: utf8
character_sets_dir: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/
20 Tables: OK
That’s quite different from what I have at other places (utf8 everywhere except filesystem).
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
Hi Michael
I would convert to utf8. latin1 to utf8 might be of help. Back up the db before you use it:)
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
Do you have a .htaccess file or plugin that causes this redirect:
Clicking ‘search’ initially tries to get an URL like this:
http://www.hochschulgemeinde.de/?q=%C3%A9nter
But that triggers a HTTP 301 redirect to:
Location: http://hochschulgemeinde.de/index.php?q=%25C3%25A9nter
And that’s where the second url_encode happens.
If you have something like [R=301,L] in your .htaccess, replace it with [R=301,NE,L]
Last edited by ruud (2011-08-07 10:34:03)
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#7 2011-08-07 13:05:43
- saccade
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
I had something like that in my .htaccess,
replaced it – but with no effect.
Now I completely discarded the old .htaccess and use the .htaccess directly from the release – but again with no effect.
second url_encode obviously still happens.
No different behaviour.
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
It does work now, so unless you changed something else, it was the .htaccess file that caused the problem.
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#9 2011-08-07 13:39:54
- saccade
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Re: Search input with Umlauts
Hi ruud,
thank you very much for your help! :)
(I didn’t change something else, must have been the cache or something like that to keep me away from the solution. So the old .htaccess file caused the problem. It’s better with a default .htaccess anyway.)
Have a nice sunday!
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