UTF8 - Name values

[Kieran Hardern]

Something I forgot to put in the system overview, and have now amended.

 

Name values (name_first and name_last) are UTF8 encoded before they are sent to you. This probably doesn't affect most people, however be aware that you may wish to decode from UTF8 if you use that data.

[Bradley Grafelman]

Keep up the great work Kieran! Here's a Unicode high-five for you...

 

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[Mathias Johnsen 839996]

Hi Kieran

 

I'm struggeling with fixing the names of our members on our forum and member list.

 

"Håvard Halvorsen" (in the vatsim database) is returned to us as "HÃ¥vard Halvorsen" via the SSO login in IP.Board.

As well as in http://api.vateud.net/members/SCA.json we get this return: "H\u00c3\u00a5Vard" = "HÃ¥Vard"

 

Suggestions?

[Kieran Hardern]

I think your answer is this thread - make sure you're correctly working with UTF8!

 

Given the issue I'd say start at the very end and work backwards to find exactly where things are going wrong. So look first at what text encoding your browser is displaying it to you in when you see that output - the most likely explanation being that you're viewing a UTF8 string but your browser is interpreting otherwise. Following that go back to make sure it is being converted/stored correctly.

 

(Edit: I'm talking only about SSO here, EUD API is not managed by me, or run from SSO data)