#2071 - Some characters, such as quotations, don't get rendered properly via. lang
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| Identifier | #2071 |
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| Issue type | Minor issue (breaks specific functionality) |
| Title | Some characters, such as quotations, don't get rendered properly via. lang |
| Status | Completed |
| Handling member | Chris Graham |
| Addon | core |
| Description | Sometimes if there is a special character such as a quotation mark in a language string, it will render as bizzare characters. Example: “:activityâ€. |
| Steps to reproduce | 1. Find a language string with quotation marks in it. 2. Using PHP code, pass the language string through an cms template to be rendered as a page. 3. Access that page. |
| Funded? | No |
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I'm wondering if maybe the LANG file itself needs converted to UTF8 even if it looks to already be in that format.
The characters here are not regular quote marks, they are the left/right leaning quotes, which are not in the Western European character set.
We use some of these by reference to their HTML entities in the default language files, but we never use the characters directly because the default pack is not unicode.