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  • 2008-05-26 11:16:27

    Bulgarian title of course content is scrambled

    Dear ATutor team,

    I have a problem with my instance of ATutor when uploading Bulgarian course content. The actual course content is shown correctly, however the title of the various chapters come out scrambled.
    In the MySQL settings, I run following SQL query:
    ALTER TABLE `AT_content` CHANGE `title` `title` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NOT NULL

    This however did not solve the problem, and the Bulgarian entry for the title of the course content still appears like: на хора в неравностойн

    Any way I can solve this so that Bulgarian entries are supported for the AT_content title field?

    Thanks in advance.
    Karel


    operating system - Linux 2.6.16.53-070731a
    version of ATutor - 1.5.5.
    versions of php - 5.1.6
    version of mysq l - 5.0.27
    web browser being used - Mozilla Firefox


  • 2008-05-26 11:26:56

    Re: Bulgarian title of course content is scrambled

    1.5.5 is using WINDOWS 1251 for Bulgarian. UTF-8 was introduced in 1.6


  • 2008-05-28 10:07:58

    Re: Bulgarian title of course content is scrambled

    Thanks Greg, I was aware of this, however is there another setting (collation) I could apply to ensure it can display correctly Bulgarian as course content title in 1.5.5 without having to use 1.6?

    Thanks in advance for your feedback.
    Karel


  • 2008-05-28 15:24:38

    Re: Bulgarian title of course content is scrambled

    Yes. If you are using something like phpMyAdmin, you can set the collation under the Operations tab to cp1251, I think is the equivalent to windows-1251.

    I wonder however, if the content was created in Bulgarian while ATutor was being displayed in another language. That might produce the problem you describe. Try creating a title in Bulgarian, when ATutor is displayed in English then when it is displayed in Bulgarian and see what you get.


  • 2008-05-28 17:03:03

    Re: Bulgarian title of course content is scrambled

    Spot on Greg, BG content created while in BG settings is now displayed correctly under BG settings.

    Thanks as always!
    Karel


  • 2008-05-28 17:16:07

    Re: Bulgarian title of course content is scra

    Glad to hear that.

    This is one of the problems fixed in 1.6 with the switch to utf-8. Any number of languages can now be used in course content, with ATutor displayed in any language.