Greek And WHMCS

[petros82]

I use whmcs to register .gr TLDs and my registrant needs utf-8 encoding so i setup to localization setting utf-8

 

 

My language file is in Greek and i see characters like (��)

 

When i add the line "header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso8859-7');"

 

in my language file, everything is ok, but when a customer input text then

 

from my admin panel i see (��) again !

 

Anyone can help me ?

 

Thanks in advanced

 

Petros

[siforek]

Where are you seeing �� in the admin panel?

[Strats]

Petros,

 

The best way to use whmcs with greek lang is to set it up with System Charset iso-8859-7

This is the only way to avoid encoding problems.

[blainous]

Solution 1:

Upgrade to WHMCS v4

 

Solution 2:

Add a new currency with the name EURO and the symbol €

[vagdesign]

Petro, try on the Admin Panel > Setup/General Settings/*Localization* tab to change the System Charset to windows-1253.

To my installation of WHMCS 4.0.1 works ok.

 

I hope this helps.

VAG

[Dusan]

Hi Everyone,

 

The best solution for any language with special characters is the following (trust me, I had severe headache before hacking it):

 

Edit your desired lang file in "notepad ++", type in any special character you like (no need for HTML codes), convert the file to 'UNIX UTF8 without DOM' format, and set up UTF8 in the admin area.

 

That's all!

 

Hope it helps.

 

Greets,

Dusan.

[spyrosvl]

You have to change the file encoding with notepad++ to UTF8 without bom as was said but you will also have to check the collation of your database.

mySQL tables and fields collation has to be UTF8 unicode or UTF8 general.

Make sure that when something is written on your database is written with normal greek characters.

[gr2]

Hi Everyone,

 

The best solution for any language with special characters is the following (trust me, I had severe headache before hacking it):

 

Edit your desired lang file in "notepad ++", type in any special character you like (no need for HTML codes), convert the file to 'UNIX UTF8 without DOM' format, and set up UTF8 in the admin area.

 

That's all!

 

Hope it helps.

 

Greets,

Dusan.

 

thanks for this working solution on v4.

[chrismfz]

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

 

Nice

 

What was your old encoding inside WHMCS ? (From Settings > Localization)

 

Unicode or Greek ISO ?

Because I have started with Greek ISO and everytime I tried

to switch to UTF all the Database information including

clients, comments, names, invoices, generally everything

messed up... (Yes the classic "???" sh*t)

 

I tried iconv, voodoo magic, shell scripts, notepad++

but I cannot convert the db into UTF to change it entirely..

 

Any ideas ?

 

Matt told me it cannot be done but I just believe he had

a bad day when he told me...

[gr2]

utf8.

 

but the database and the language files are 2 separate issues.

 

this solution is for the language files, not the database.

 

im afraid, but not 100%, that you might need to re-enter all your data.

 

best bet would be a clean install and the bd local set to utf8 as well as in whmcs.

 

hope this helps.