Compatibility with UTF-8 / Problems with special characters

Forms with fields for names need to post special characters in names like the german expression for "ae", "ue", "oe", "ss" as ONE character. But my form doesn´t. It makes unreadable terms out of these characters.

Joomla 1.5 uses UTF-8 as standard code, I believe. Which standard uses ChronoForms? The older ISO-8859 ore something?

Is it that what makes the posting of names in forms so unusable?

If yes, how and where could I make ChronoForms compatible with the UTF-8-code of Joomla 1.5?

Thanks in advance!
Hermann

Hi Hermann,

As far as I know ChronoForms uses UTF-8 all the way through.

We do know of some problems with Excel export but not much otherwise.

If you turn debug on does the array of submitted data shown there have the correct characters.

Bob

Later: I just checked on a test site and evrerything seems to work perfectly out of the box. See the image for the $_POST array and the save database record.

Hello, I am receiving this issue also and have only come across it when you export to CSV and open in excel.

We are taking registrations and when users from europe enter their special characters in, it all becomes unreadable.

eg:
Tržaška cesta 116
402 73 Göteborg

Is there any way to clean this up so it is readable in english?
Thank you in advance.

Hi amp,

If you search here on 'Excel' or 'csv' you'll find a couple of helpful threads about this.

Bob