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We have a umlaut (and French letters) problem in #Friendica.

I have no time to check/open an issue. Can someone check I they can reproduce and then open an issue?

See this reply specifically.
https://social.yl.ms/display/e18176ef-1265-69cb-ae0b-50b145353709

And the parent post over here:
https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/e18176ef-9065-69a9-e39a-ddc743211790#426149507260013c19f17054d219cb33

!Friendica Support

utzer [Friendica]

2023-12-01 09:39:47


Alte #LKW ohne Unterfahrschutz. ð159;153;129;

Es müsste der LKW der #Bundeswehr oben links im Bild sein, dass erklärt auch die komplette Zerstörung des weiÃ159;en Transporters.

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/koeln-unfall-stauende-lkw-100.html


#friendica !Friendica Support
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] It’s the second time this month that people reports encoding issues with Friendica output. It should have been simple, Friendica always outputs UTF-8 text, even if it doesn’t say so explicitly. But some platforms defaults to ISO 8859-1, a remnant of a distant path, when they don’t get explicit encoding information.

It is starting to piss me off that we will have to ensure the encoding is set in all outgoing requests.

Admin (of friendica.utzer.de)
Admin (of friendica.utzer.de)  
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@Hypolite Petovan and what explains the encoding issue on the other Friendica server in the user name mentioned?

https://friendica.utzer.de/display/f4fa78b9-1565-69cb-cfa7-a92068135374

Admin (of friendica.utzer.de)

2023-12-01 12:04:31


Hier auch.

@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Admin (of friendica.utzer.de) It is puzzling and hard to reproduce since your server need to be configured to show the direct parent mention which my node doesn't, so when you quote the faulty mention post, the mention doesn't make it to my display.
@Admin (of friendica.utzer.de)
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] @Admin (of friendica.utzer.de) It automatically did when you quoted the problem post, but the mention doesn’t show, which makes it non-trivial to troubleshoot.
@Admin (of friendica.utzer.de)
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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I can't reproduce it - on neither system.
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Michael Vogel wahllose Zeichen öäüèéėêëãāāàâá
@Michael Vogel
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Michael Vogel look good on your end.

How was the encoding in the problem post on your server?

@Michael Vogel
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] @Michael Vogel The problem doesn't seem to be in the post body but in display names and mentions. You should trying setting the display name of another of your accounts to "ützer" and try mentioning it, maybe?
@Michael Vogel
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] Here are my initial findings:

- https://social.yl.ms/objects/e18176ef-1265-69cb-ae0b-50b145353709 doesn't show the encoding issue in the mention display name
- https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/e18176ef-1265-69cb-ae0b-50b145353709 shows the encoding issue in the display name

However, I wasn't able to retrieve a source message for this post, so I don't know how it looked when it reached my node, but the mention shows OK:

utzer [Friendica]

2023-12-01 12:03:58


@Aladár Mézga hier gehts.

Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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It works perfectly on my system:
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Michael Vogel @Hypolite Petovan maybe something todo with Diaspora... don't know.

I will see what happens in the future.

Here it happened again.
https://friendica.utzer.de/display/f4fa78b9-2465-6bb9-e506-35f740657970

Here is some test post which looks fine on both my servers and Mastodon.
https://social.yl.ms/display/e18176ef-2065-6cac-e7d3-6ec761380172

hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

2023-12-02 23:12:37


@wahlhesse Heh .. the suspense is killing me......

Also was solls ...... während der chinaböller noch unterwegs ist (mittlerweile in den händen von hermes - uhjee), wirds aber für mich quasi zu weihnachten dann dennoch auch nochmal eine sinnvolle albrecht AE2990 AFS mit ein wenig zubehör (akku, adapteritis, antenneritis, younameit).....

Muh...

Immerhin, offenbar gibts nächstes jahr dann ja nochmal klasse N .... wer weiss ob ich da zumindest reinkomm. ;)


@Hypolite Petovan @Michael Vogel
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan would you mind to post the Umlauts from here for a test? no mentions
@Hypolite Petovan
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan
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