Re: Jahia 4.05, HTMLArea does not work in german language

Hi,
I just tried the conversion of the german language files of HTMLArea 
from internal UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1. Because ISO-8859-1 contains 
as subset also german umlauts, I encoded these characters in native 
format (this means, I don't have used an escape encoding  \uxxx for 
these characters). Now the HTMLArea editor also shows up in the german 
language and the javascript error message about wrong encoding of the 
files in Mozilla has vanished. Note, that my default encoding set in 
Mozilla is ISO-8859-1 and the HTML file referencing the javascript 
language files of HTMLArea (The Editor popup window HTML) don't specify 
any language encoding. So I think my mozilla uses ISO-8859-1 here.

So, I searched the web and found the following:

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The problem is that your web server is serving JavaScript files with the 
header:

   Content-Type: text/javascript

and the embedding web page does not specify an encoding for the 
javascript file. So, this does not tell the web browser what character 
encoding the file is using. It has to guess. Firefox's guess is "the 
same encoding as the HTML page that referenced it".

To fix, either make the server specify a character encoding for JS files 
by sending a header such as:

   Content-Type: text/javascript;charset=utf-8

or set the right character encoding in the HTML file.
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So, I take a look at how the HTMLArea language javascript files are 
referenced in the HTML code embedding the HTML Area editor and found the 
followind:

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<script type="text/javascript">
   _editor_url = "/jahia/jsp/jahia/htmleditors/htmlarea-3.0-rc1/";
   _editor_lang = "de";

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" 
src="/jahia/jsp/jahia/htmleditors/htmlarea-3.0-rc1/htmlarea.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" 
src="/jahia/jsp/jahia/htmleditors/htmlarea-3.0-rc1/dialog.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" 
src="/jahia/jsp/jahia/htmleditors/htmlarea-3.0-rc1/popupwin.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" 
src="/jahia/jsp/jahia/htmleditors/htmlarea-3.0-rc1/lang/de.js"></script>
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Look at the last line, the script tag doesn't set an language encoding. 
I believe, the last line should be

<script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" 
src="/jahia/jsp/jahia/htmleditors/htmlarea-3.0-rc1/lang/de.js"></script>

if the charset encoding of de.js ist UTF-8. Otherwise the browser would 
assume, it is in the same encoding as the HTML page and Jahia doesn't 
specify any encoding for the HTML page, so mozilla related browser use 
the default encoding which the user sets.

So, to fix this, the question is now: If we want to supply the right 
charset information for the language javascript files in the 
corresponding Jahia jsp page, what is the right way to find out, in what 
charset encoding is the file really?

I hope, this rather lengthy explanation clears things up for you. So how 
should we fix this issue now?

Best regards,
Clemens Düpmeier

Khue Nguyen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could you please send us the de.js file for debugging.
> I just tested with mozilla and couldn't reproduce this issue.
> 
>> So, my question is:
> 
> 
>> An easy fix looks like changing the default encoding of all de.js
>> language files under the HTMLArea directory to ISO-8859, but is this the
>> right solution? Or should the HTML be modified to supply UTF-8 encoding
>> for languages where the langauge files are encoded in UTF-8?
> 
> 
> if you change the encoding to ISO-8859, characters like öß have to be 
> translated to Unicode characters \uXXXX .
> 
> Regards,
> Khue Nguyen
> 
>