Back In Stock Notifications

[olafkarsten]

Hello,

First conor: Thanks for the module and the time you invested.

I'm running a german website. The module works fine so far. The only thing i can't get to work is the special characters in (Text-) E-Mails - e.g. the ö and ä and ü

Miss I something?

Thanks

Olaf

[conor]

Hi Olaf,

First conor: Thanks for the module and the time you invested.

Thanks for letting me know it's appreciated! :)

I'm running a german website. The module works fine so far. The only thing i can't get to work is the special characters in (Text-) E-Mails - e.g. the ö and ä and ü

Miss I something?

Hmm, I have only tested the e-mails the module sends with english words myself. I am not sure why it wouldn't work with special characters, obviously there's full UTF support for the HTML files. Is it text e-mails only? HTML e-mails work fine?

If so, I'm afraid that I'll have to say for the minute that special characters are possibly unsupported in text e-mails.

Sorry if that's bad news!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[olafkarsten]

Hi Conor,

I didn't test html mails, yet. But all the other System Mails from Zen-Cart comes in plain/text utf8 and display all special characters.

I'm not a programmer. But, I'll try to compare the code, which generates the e-mails. I guess anywhere there is the answer. :-)

Regards

Olaf

[conor]

Hi Olaf,

I didn't test html mails, yet. But all the other System Mails from Zen-Cart comes in plain/text utf8 and display all special characters.

Just spent 15 minutes there testing this out in various encodings and the module is working perfectly.

It is Zen Cart which sets the encoding of the e-mails. With the Zen Cart UTF-8 module installed, e-mails sent on our test server have the following header:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Here's an example of some text I just added into the admin languages definitions file for the Back In Stock Notifications module (admin/includes/languages/english/back_in_stock_notifications.php):

define('EMAIL_GREETING', 'DearϵЖ ä ü %s,ϵЖ');

The e-mail came through starting with:

DearϵЖ ä ü Conor Kerr,ϵЖ

Which as you can see is perfect.

You may have not saved your language file in UTF-8 format, or if you are adding text directly to the e-mail file, you may not have set it to be UTF-8 either (email_template_back_in_stock_notification.txt).

So this definitely works.. hopefully the above is enough to get this sorted for you. Otherwise I'm afraid there's nothing I can do here.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DigitalShadow]

When viewing my current subscribed notifications in My Account, the display is not aligned correctly, the sidebars are not in the correct location, they are located on the left of the center main text area.

So I can't see the checkbox to unsubscribe. What do i need to edit?

Also I would like to add a space between each line as shown on the file spaces, which file should I edit?

[conor]

Hi,

When viewing my current subscribed notifications in My Account, the display is not aligned correctly, the sidebars are not in the correct location, they are located on the left of the center main text area.

So I can't see the checkbox to unsubscribe. What do i need to edit?

You may have messed up any modifications you made to the template file.

Also I would like to add a space between each line as shown on the file spaces, which file should I edit?

The template file (you can find more info in the docs).

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[DigitalShadow]

I didn't change anything nor mess anything up, could you please tell me the file you think I would need to look at.

This is the only page that has this problem, all other 3000 pages display correctly.