Checkboxes, Umlauts and not sending the correct info

Hi,
i want my users to choose between 4 options (one at least required). But if I test it, all options where sent to me via email, even if only one is selected. These options do have german Umlaute (ä ö ü) and () inside...
By the way: every Character after an ü ä ö is written in capital. this looks like: GebüHr...

Here is my code:

<div class="form_item"><div class="form_element cf_checkbox"><label class="cf_label">Ich nehme teil an folgenden Veranstaltungen:</label><div class="float_left"><input value="Block C Am Samstagvormittag (10:15-11:15 Uhr) Kaffeepause (11:15-11:45 Uhr)" class="radio validate-one-required" id="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (10:15-11:15 Uhr) Kaffeepause (11:15-11:45 Uhr)" name="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (10:15-11:15 Uhr) Kaffeepause (11:15-11:45 Uhr)" type="checkbox"><label for="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (10:15-11:15 Uhr) Kaffeepause (11:15-11:45 Uhr)" class="check_label">Block C Am Samstagvormittag (10:15-11:15 Uhr) Kaffeepause (11:15-11:45 Uhr)</label><br><input value="Block C Am Samstagvormittag (11:45-12:45 Uhr)" class="radio" id="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (11:45-12:45 Uhr)" name="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (11:45-12:45 Uhr)" type="checkbox"><label for="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (11:45-12:45 Uhr)" class="check_label">Block C Am Samstagvormittag (11:45-12:45 Uhr)</label><br><input value="Imbiss Am Samstagmittag (12:45-13:45 Uhr) (In TagungsgebüHr Enthalten)" class="radio" id="Imbiss_Am Samstagmittag (12:45-13:45 Uhr) (In TagungsgebüHr Enthalten)" name="Imbiss_Am Samstagmittag (12:45-13:45 Uhr) (In TagungsgebüHr Enthalten)" type="checkbox"><label for="Imbiss_Am Samstagmittag (12:45-13:45 Uhr) (In TagungsgebüHr Enthalten)" class="check_label">Imbiss Am Samstagmittag (12:45-13:45 Uhr) (In TagungsgebüHr Enthalten)</label><br><input value="Abschluss-Vortrag üBer Legasthenie Am Samstagnachmittag (14:00-15:30 Uhr) (öFfentlicher Und GebüHrenfreier Vortrag)" class="radio" id="Abschluss-Vortrag_üBer Legasthenie Am Samstagnachmittag (14:00-15:30 Uhr) (öFfentlicher Und GebüHrenfreier Vortrag)" name="Abschluss-Vortrag_üBer Legasthenie Am Samstagnachmittag (14:00-15:30 Uhr) (öFfentlicher Und GebüHrenfreier Vortrag)" type="checkbox"><label for="Abschluss-Vortrag_üBer Legasthenie Am Samstagnachmittag (14:00-15:30 Uhr) (öFfentlicher Und GebüHrenfreier Vortrag)" class="check_label">Abschluss-Vortrag üBer Legasthenie Am Samstagnachmittag (14:00-15:30 Uhr) (öFfentlicher Und GebüHrenfreier Vortrag)</label><br></div></div><div class="clear"> </div></div>

Could you please give me a hint, where my mistake is? I can't find it...
And one more note: I installed chronoforms and in my install->component-> chronoforms is named: ChronoContact...

Thanks a lot.
Yours JamFX

Hi jamfx,

The easy question first - when ChronoForms was first launched it was for extended Contact Forms - hence ChronoContact. Later Max has developed it for all kinds of other forms.

Please see this thread for a general fix for special characters.

You will also have a problem with your names and ids like

name="Block_C Am Samstagvormittag (10:15-11:15 Uhr) Kaffeepause (11:15-11:45 Uhr)"

these fields cannot contain spaces or characters other than a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and underscore and must start with a letter. They will need to be changed to - for example, name="blockc_samstag"

Bob

Hi,
Thanks for your quick reply! I just renamed all very long terms in the name"yxyx"-Field and it worked directly! Thanks that was great. Only the character problem is still existing. It's not that the Umlauts where not shown. The FOLLOWING character is capital. Like this GebüHr and the H must be small...

Is there one more solution for this?
Thanks
JamFX

Hi jamfx,

I'm not very good with character set problems. That two characters are being affected suggests something around UTF but I can't be more helpful than that.

Bob

Hi jamfx,

please try the fix in the post which Bob showed, maybe it will fix this for you.

Cheers
Max