[ic] Non-US keys = UTF-8 issue?
Grant
emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 09:54:30 EST 2008
> >>>> Email order receipt will not be send as UTF8 charset, so it's quite
> >>>> plausible that Swedish characters are messed up. Proper UTF8 support
> >>>> is still under development.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Racke
> >>> Will IC pass unicode characters properly to mysql? Should they be
> >>> displayed properly with [value]?
> >> As has been noted in this thread already, full unicode support is far
> >> from trivial, and is something that can be difficult to put in as an
> >> afterthought. If you are just concerned with the out-going emails
> >> (i.e., the site appears to function fine), you can try to use one of
> >> the following approaches:
> >>
> >> If you are using the [email] tag to send out your confirmation/order
> >> emails and you know that all of the data will be in the UTF-8
> >> encoding, you can add explicit calls to the tag usertag to output
> >> mime headers as shown:
> >>
> >> [email <to, from, etc> extra="[tag op=mime arg=header]"]
> >> [tag op='mime' type='text/plain; charset="utf-8"']
> >> <body content here>
> >> [/email]
> >>
> >> Another option (depending on how much you want to get your hands
> >> dirty) is to roll-your-own email sending usertag/routine in Perl
> >> which can harness both Encode and MIME::Lite to explicitly manage/
> >> handle the coercion of data to the desired encoding.
> >>
> >> Please note that if you have non-ascii data that you want to appear
> >> in the email headers (to, from, subject, etc) you will need to
> >> explicitly encode the data using the MIME-Header encoding to handle
> >> this properly.
> >>
> >> Good Luck,
> >>
> >> David
> >
> > Thanks David. I'm not so much concerned with email being displayed
> > properly as I am with having the customer's shipping address. Maybe
> > the thing to do is use [tag] as you suggested to always send a
> > separate UTF-8 email to the admin containing just the shipping address
> > so we're sure to have that. We would need to run that UTF-8 address
> > through IC to ship though, so that may not do any good anyway. It
> > sounds like UTF-8 data is messed up as soon as it hits IC, but maybe
> > not. I'm still not clear on that.
>
> Check if UTF8 data is stored as such in the database, try to enter
> UTF8 strings in user account forms etc.
>
>
> Regards
> Racke
Alright, thanks for everyone's help with this.
- Grant
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