<SOLVED> In news, the date in Finnish seems to be in different encoding than...

[mannerv]

I am using CMS Made Simple with Finnish language chosen.

In the news section of my site, I get these symbols that to me seem to indicate that the character encoding is wrong somewhere.

You can see the behaviour live here, at the bottom left corner of the page in the news section. My CMS Made Simple should be using UTF-8 character encoding. When I set Firefox to use that encoding, my content shows up okay, but in the news, there is this text: joulu� 21, 2008. I am not sure if you see this, but there is this square with a question mark inside it, that is standing on its corner after the text "joulu".

If I set in Firefox character encoding into ISO-8859-1 Western, the symbol disappears, but my Finnish language umlauts become gibberish.

Is the translation file for Finnish in wrong encoding or what might be going on? Should I set my site to a different encoding?

Also, a minor thing, in Finland the dates are normally marked in the format 21.12.2008 or 21. joulukuu 2008. I would love if I could change this.

[mannerv]

I noticed that in the news module the encoding seems to be wrong at the admin side also. I would love to fix this problem all around.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Are there some translation files, where the month names are written in Finnish or where do the foreign month names come from?

[mannerv]

And more follow-up. This same problem happened at http://www.opensourcecms.com/cms/cmsmadesimple/.

The language of the site was French and in the News module, the name of the month was shown incorrectly.

With UTF-8 it was: d�c 9, 2008.
With ISO-8859-1 it was: déc 9, 2008.

[korpirkor]

It's only in dates (months) filtered by strftime - With Polish language is the same thing
Its late, so I'm giving you 2 solutions for this problem in PL: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg88300

[mannerv]

Thank you. I think I was able to understand what was needed to do.

Here are the instructions in English.

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More information at http://php.net/setlocale

[korpirkor]

Polish isn't such hard, don't U think ?

setlocale may be placed also in few additional modules, so You should check them all for setlocale LC_TIME and LC_ALL

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[nxthor]

[quote="mannerv"]Here are the instructions in English.

Open up the file /include.php at the CMSms installation root.
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Thx! straight solution to my problem in the first google-hit . Nice, you made my day.

NXTHOR