Question marks in select boxes

Chris.Nicholson · January 7, 2005, 3:27am

Hi there,

I have a custom form and one of the questions is a SELECT.

Though I am entering (as the options):

New South Wales

South Australia

Western Australia

etc, the output on the screen comes out like:

New?South?Wales

South?Australia

Western?Australia

Is anyone aware of why?

Thanks

Chris N

Luke_Wright · January 7, 2005, 3:41am

I would like to jointly sponsor this question, as I tried to fix it for Chris and had absolutely no idea why it was happening. I couldn't reproduce it in my 3.2 stable system either

In Firefox it had what would have been the 'unknown character' glyph in it (mine shows a diamond with a ? mark inside it for some reason, rather than the box). In IE it's just a plain question mark.

Avi_Miller · January 7, 2005, 3:58am

Sounds like a bad encoding mehtod. Which webserver is this on? What's the encoding of that page set to?

Marcus_Nyeholt · January 7, 2005, 5:33am

I had this happen today too, but with the type format of an asset list. I recommitted the bodycopy of the format and it cleared up… weird.

Luke_Wright · January 7, 2005, 5:44am

Character set wasn't set through the asset, but in the design parsefile as a META tag… was set to Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) for some reason; taking it out hasn't helped…

Avi_Miller · January 7, 2005, 5:57am

You may want to check what the default encoding Apache is sending. The default changed from Apache 1.3 (ISO-8859-1) to Apache 2 (UTF-8).

gsherwood · January 7, 2005, 9:02am

If that was for SOPA, I've also noticed that the "Whats On" page in the asset map has a bad character instead of a space character. Not sure whats going on there.

jordanpayne · January 17, 2005, 1:15am

Hey,

I've come across this problem with questions marks appearing where spaces should be in Selection boxes too. Can anyone post a definitive solution, I tried the recommitting of the bodycopy and I'm not too sure about the server stuffs. Any helps appreciated.

Cheers

Chris.Nicholson · January 17, 2005, 1:23am

This issue was corrected in this client's instance by Marcus last week.

Marcus advised that Avi was correct in that it was the encoding Apache was sending.

Marcus corrected the issue on the client's server, however he is on leave at the moment so he cannot post a reply on the specifics of anything else he did on the server side.

Chris N

Avi_Miller · January 17, 2005, 3:05am

You need to change Apache's default encoding back to ISO-8859-1. Its in httpd.conf.