[chandler-users] encoding issue characters shown wrong on events notes

[Hilario J. Montoliu]

Hilario J. Montoliu escribió:
> Hi all
> 
> I've deployed a Chandler Server/Client system in our office.
> 
> The server we use is Ubuntu LTS 8.04 with Chandler server v1.1.0. I've 
> used as data base backend MySQL installed following the instructions 
> from the wiki [1]
> 
> All the clients are Windows XP SP3 with the same language configuration 
> (spanish international).
> 
> Linux clients are expected to subscribe in a future.
> 
> The subscriptions in the clients are done via tickets.
> 
> The *problem* we have is that when a user creates an event, the text in 
> the note is shown rightly with all the "special spanish characters" even 
> after a sync with the server; but when another user opens the same event 
> then the "special spanish characters" are shown wrong. After that even 
> the user which has created the note sees those characters bad too.
> 
> The database was created with UTF-8 encoding as indicated in the howto [1].
> 
> I believe I've checked everything in the system so I'm sure I¡m missing 
> something obvious.
> 

Forgot to mention that I've already checked that the windows clients 
support utf-8 as said in:

  * 
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-users/2008-January/001083.html 

  * http://unicode.org/help/display_problems.html

> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I don't know how to determine what's wrong so please ask me whatever 
> thing you want me to check or do to find what's the problem.
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Links:
> 
> [1] 
> http://chandlerproject.org/Documentation/ServerBundleStartupConfiguration#MySQL%205 
>