[ php-blog-Bugs-1414571 ] umlauts in adminname corrupted after installing for utf8

Bugs item #1414571, was opened at 2006-01-25 13:27
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Category: Installer/Upgrader
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Summary: umlauts in adminname corrupted after installing for utf8

Initial Comment:
The setup asks you for the name of the admin. 
since the setup itself is nut utf8 it will store the 
name as Latin1. Later it can be changed and its no big 
problem. maybe this only occured because i use mysql 4.
0 where utf8 is not supportet by the database or 
because i dont have the iconv module.
but I guess it would also happen on the username so you 
could not login after installation.

the solution would be to change the submittet data to 
utf8 (utf8_encode) and store this to the database.

everything else was very good. this is the best 
opensource php script I have ever seen.

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Comment By: david buchmann (dbu)
Date: 2006-07-03 18:49

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not astonished to observe the same behaviour with the other
fields like blog name and blog description. when fixing
this, please fix for all fields...

(and thanks for s9y!)

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Comment By: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Date: 2006-01-25 13:46

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Thanks for pointing this out. Indeed it is a weakness in the
installer, because the Charset is assigned only after
installation, and Serendipity does not transcode the former
input to the new charset.

I will work on such a fixup function that translates the
user input from the default charset (ISO-8859-1 for english
and german) to the really selected charset after the 1.0
Release. Implementing it for the 1.0 Release might result in
more serious breaks, that's why I'm postponing this a bit.

Many thanks for your praise,
Garvin

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