Does not show special chractors like ü on page when i include thickbox script in html

[neovantage]

hey all,
When i include thickbox scrip tin html document then it does not show special characters like "ü". But wrote question mark in firefox mozilla and alian characters in IE. But without including thickbox it works fine. How can i fix that issue. Kindly help me out to sort my Problem

[Dormilich]

looks like a charset mismatch. make sure that the charset of your HTML and the thickbox script match.

if that's not possible, try htmlentities() on the text.

[neovantage]

Thanks a lotttttttttttttttt. htmlentities() function works fine. You are amazing man. Of my every problem you always have a solution on hand. In our country people like you are called Theta. Thanks a lot again. May you live long

[Dormilich]

I only happen to use ä, ö, ü and ß a lot.

[neovantage]

Hey Dormilich,
Hope you are doing good. I am getting again an error while using thickbox in my script. In IE 6 when i scroll down the page then it is the facility provided by thickbox that the pop up window remain in the middle of the page even if the page is too long. But it give jerks whle scrolling long page up n down the main window and pop up window give jerks in IE 6. Is ther any way that i can fix that problem as it is working fine in firefox mozilla. Awaiting of your reply and hope i got the solution of my problem again this time from your end as i got always.

[Dormilich]

sounds like a Javascript problem, post it there.

[neovantage]

what should i post sir. Javascript file of thickbox here? or i mean i don't get you.

[Dormilich]

probably the best is to describe the problem and post a link to the page where it occurs (or maybe you could PM a PHP Mod and ask him to split the thread at this question).

[neovantage]

Sir this project is not live yet. but i am sending you the pages in detail through PM to you

[Dormilich]

better post it in the Javascript forum.

[neovantage]

Sir my page is live now
Here is the link of my Problem.
http://www.ewconsultinginc.com/devel...icesandern.php

Firstly it did not shows the special characters.
Secondly When i clicked on some link and it open a window by blurring the current page and when i close the open window the current page disappear the background image from header menu and footer menu. How can i fixed that?

[Dormilich]

@neovantage
looks like a charset mismatch again. It depends where you get the text from and how it is stored there (i.e. with which encoding). htmlentities() doesn't work properly, if the passed string has the wrong encoding. debugging this may take some time*.

@neovantage
can't verify that on FF 3.0.8, I see no changes.

* in my application I ended up with replacing all non-ascii characters by numeric entities, because my live server also had problems with utf-8 (unlike the localhost)

PS: some of your link texts need spell correction

PPS: you can pass to htmlentities() the encoding of the string, though that only helps if the string is not already screwed up.

[neovantage]

But sir it is working fine at my local server. i even changed the character set from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 even then it is working fine locally but remotely does not working.

Is there any fixation of this?

[neovantage]

Secondly When i clicked on some link and it open a window by blurring the current page and when i close the open window the current page disappear the background image from header menu and footer menu.

Sir this is working fine in in FF version 2 and higher but does not working in IE6

[Dormilich]

I've had exactly the same problem...

can't help with the IE issue due to not having any IE.

[neovantage]

and Sir what about fixing special characters?

[Dormilich]

@Dormilich
currently I'm looking how I did that exactly....

[neovantage]

* in my application I ended up with replacing all non-ascii characters by numeric entities, because my live server also had problems with utf-8 (unlike the localhost).

How can i replace all non-ascii characters by numeric entities? Will ypu please guide me.

[Dormilich]

have a look at the comments section of utf8_decode(), there are several ways described.

[neovantage]

Thank you very much brother. It works........!

[Dormilich]

I'm glad you got it working.

nevertheless, make sure to perform a spell check on the site before releasing.

[neovantage]

Yes i will do that. Actually the client of the company gave us the existing website where we are working. Sir this is my portfolio
http://www.mohsinrafique.com

Please give some time to my personal website and give me comments/bugs/critic because they are very valuable for me. I need the experts guide like you are.