overescaping in russian localistion ?

annoynimouse · Oct 25, 2008, 10:25 PM

during registration i got the following prompts from the forum.

The variables were not substituted with values.

before registration and activation:
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Ñïàñèáî çà ðåãèñòðàöèþ, $username. Íà àäðåñ $email áûëî îòïðàâëåíî ïèñüìî ñ èíñòðóêöèÿìè ïî àêòèâàöèè âàøåãî àêêàóíòà
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after activation:

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Ñïàñèáî, $username. Âàøà ðåãèñòðàöèÿ òåïåðü çàâåðøåíà.
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***craig5320*** · Oct 26, 2008, 06:49 PM

Hi,

Can you detail where you see this? A screenshot would be ideal. So I can locate the code responsible.

Thanks

Craig

annoynimouse · Oct 27, 2008, 10:25 PM

that's when you reg new account, while setting forum UI to russian.

1st message is saying ~ "Hello, John Doe! We must check, you're not a bot, so we've sent You a letter to john@doe.name - open it and read how to activate your account."

2nd message is about "Well done, John Doe! Your account has been activated now"

The bold text is that, that was not shown and rather var names were.

------- more to add ---

See my posts at http://www.hardwareheaven.com/driverhe...i-tell-ya.html

See subject, and what is there instead of "Re: "
I'd suggest You disabled localisation of such prefixes.
1) they are quite international anyhow, especially in geek-oriented forums.
2) They are unreadable anyhow. Your backend is not Unicode-capable and that makes those prefixes appear correct only if reader had set forum UI to russian. Woul i logout, UI would fallback to English, including charset of page, and would see a stream of umlauts instead of cyrillic letters.

That could make sense in local rusian-speaking forum, with everyone speaking russian AND forum UI nailed to "russian" w/o choice. Here trnslation of prefixes is useless.

--------- again on new account creation ---
Mails, sent by forum (when set to russian UI), are corrupt a bit. One header is either missed or incomplete, making them hardly readable in mailer. I also think that would be the same for new-reply-notification letters, but i can't open my mailbox right now.
If interested, may discuss it later - that might be harder to fix, since that requires headers modification wrt UI lang. Not the body, but the headers.

annoynimouse · Oct 27, 2008, 10:40 PM

More on localisation, see the page info on the left, the properties i selected. And look how different is my 1st post rendered due to that.
That is what is happening with "Re: " substitution. As well that is what happens with every character above 7-bit ASCII, entered by user on this forum. :-(

vs

Oct 25, 2008, 10:25 PM	#1
annoynimouse DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	overescaping in russian localistion ? during registration i got the following prompts from the forum. The variables were not substituted with values. before registration and activation: ------------------------------------- Ñïàñèáî çà ðåãèñòðàöèþ, $username. Íà àäðåñ $email áûëî îòïðàâëåíî ïèñüìî ñ èíñòðóêöèÿìè ïî àêòèâàöèè âàøåãî àêêàóíòà ------------------------------ after activation: -------------- Ñïàñèáî, $username. Âàøà ðåãèñòðàöèÿ òåïåðü çàâåðøåíà. --------------

Oct 26, 2008, 06:49 PM	#2
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Oct 27, 2008, 10:25 PM	Thread Starter #3
annoynimouse DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	Îòâåò: overescaping in russian localistion ? that's when you reg new account, while setting forum UI to russian. 1st message is saying ~ "Hello, John Doe! We must check, you're not a bot, so we've sent You a letter to john@doe.name - open it and read how to activate your account." 2nd message is about "Well done, John Doe! Your account has been activated now" The bold text is that, that was not shown and rather var names were. ------- more to add --- See my posts at http://www.hardwareheaven.com/driverhe...i-tell-ya.html See subject, and what is there instead of "Re: " I'd suggest You disabled localisation of such prefixes. 1) they are quite international anyhow, especially in geek-oriented forums. 2) They are unreadable anyhow. Your backend is not Unicode-capable and that makes those prefixes appear correct only if reader had set forum UI to russian. Woul i logout, UI would fallback to English, including charset of page, and would see a stream of umlauts instead of cyrillic letters. That could make sense in local rusian-speaking forum, with everyone speaking russian AND forum UI nailed to "russian" w/o choice. Here trnslation of prefixes is useless. --------- again on new account creation --- Mails, sent by forum (when set to russian UI), are corrupt a bit. One header is either missed or incomplete, making them hardly readable in mailer. I also think that would be the same for new-reply-notification letters, but i can't open my mailbox right now. If interested, may discuss it later - that might be harder to fix, since that requires headers modification wrt UI lang. Not the body, but the headers.

Oct 27, 2008, 10:40 PM	Thread Starter #4
annoynimouse DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	Îòâåò: overescaping in russian localistion ? More on localisation, see the page info on the left, the properties i selected. And look how different is my 1st post rendered due to that. That is what is happening with "Re: " substitution. As well that is what happens with every character above 7-bit ASCII, entered by user on this forum. :-( vs