ImageShow problem with cyrillic special characters

**GK User** Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:50 am

Hi, being in the process of setting up a site in Russian it seems ImageShow has problems with displaying some special cyrillic characters (see frontpage slideshow on ixxdesign.com) ?!

Can that be fixed?

Thanks !!!

**GK User** Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:16 pm

P.S.: the destination URL has been registered with Gavick for licensing !

**teitbite** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:27 pm

Hi

Looks like this part is using "BebasNeue,Arial,sans-serif" font. Probably this font is not supporting some characters. I suggest to change it to one which does.

**GK User** Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:58 am

Thanks, Piotr!

No, its not that. You see the vertical scroller right to the images? All characters are displayed CORRECT there.

Only in the text OVERLY on-top of the image the same text has ISSUES on some slides with some of the character. Seems to be a script issue?!

**GK User** Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:00 am

Anyone looking into this problem?

see screenshot attached and iXXdesign.com (test website, will be moved to the licensed for russia-rtv.com domain once that is fixed)

GameMagazineCharacterError.jpg

As said its a problem of the script handling the display of the text on-top of the slide/image. The same character which has a problem there is discplaid ok in the vertical scroller on the right.

**GK User** Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:43 pm

tested with various fonts, all fonts have the same problem, its not a font issue to me, seems a script issue?!

**teitbite** Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:23 am

Hi

Sorry. Forum didn't subscribed me to this thread automaitcaly and I've lost truck of it. Please give me a joomla panel access to this page.

**GK User** Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:30 pm

I sent the login/ftp details as requested, Piotr. Any chance to look at it before Monday? Site is planned to go live Monday.

Thanks !!!

**teitbite** Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:29 am

Hi

Looks like in code a function substr (for cutting text to selected number of chars) was in use which is not multibyte characters sensitive and was cutting some characters in halp.

The solution for that is to replace it with a mb_substr function. This function can be found in every style's view.php file not far from the file ending line.

**GK User** Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:16 am

THANKS A MILLION !!!!

**GK User** Mon May 07, 2012 4:22 pm

I also face this problem with Vietnamese characters, but don't need any code changes. Just go to module manager and increase the "Title chars amount" and "Text chars amount" in the module configuration from the back end. They are under Interface tab.
Hope this help :-)

**teitbite** Mon May 07, 2012 6:30 pm

dzalang wrote:I also face this problem with Vietnamese characters, but don't need any code changes. Just go to module manager and increase the "Title chars amount" and "Text chars amount" in the module configuration from the back end. They are under Interface tab.
Hope this help

Hi

This is not a solution. An issue is happening because some special characters needs 2 characters next to each other to display as one. In a case when such double character is split You see an error. So if Your slider content will be dynamic You should make the change I've mentioned.

**GK User** Mon May 07, 2012 6:44 pm

An issue is happening because some special characters needs 2 characters next to each other to display as one. In a case when such double character is split You see an error.

!!! That's is... new thing to learn today :-)

Gotta change the file right now

Thank you Teitbite.

**teitbite** Mon May 07, 2012 7:13 pm

Hi

No problem. Glad I could help.