Garbage on email send process

[bikemike]

Anyone had this happen on sending emails?

Please do not interrupt this process! "ÏÎl`Õ!3£4«eh²@[ ............etc etc..........

[DrByte]

If you are working with prior to v1.3.5, then it might be the animated GIF file displaying corrupted.

Or, it might be related to conflicts in gzip settings.

Or, it might be corruption in your admin language files for the TEXT_PLEASE_WAIT define statements.

[bikemike]

I'm on 1.3.6, and the define(s) look ok:
define('TEXT_PLEASE_WAIT', 'Please wait .. sending emails ..<br /><br />Please do not interrupt this process!');
(there's newsletters.php AND newsletter.php....)

So maybe the gzip then? What kind of conflicts, and can I do anything about it?

Cheers

[DrByte]

1. I mention gzip because right after the language text is displayed, there is a PHP flush() command which dumps out any cached browser contents to be displayed. If your server and your site have a clash on gzip settings, there's a slight chance that some stray characters might display (although the chance is almost nil).
Admin->Configuration->GZIP Compression ... turn it off if you have it on. If it makes no difference, then that's not the issue.

2. Is it possible that the language files have corruption in them even though your text editor doesn't show it? Perhaps refreshing them on your server from originals might be a start?

3. What do you see in View Source when the garbage characters appear?

[DrByte]

Further, in another post you talked about "crud" in files because of character encoding problems and the need to try another editor in order to see the "garbage characters".
This is what I was suggesting by point#2 in my last post.

Your quote:

Then I realised that my editor was just showing me what I wanted to see (RapidPHP) so I switched to TextPad, and saw the crud. So I then spent one hour going through replacing all the Ãetc with something useful. What a pain, but on loading this sql file to production, my characters are OK.

[bikemike]

Thanks for this, I will check it out and grab the source code next time it happens. Then I'll try the master copy of the file.
The dodgy characters were only appearing in my db/sql/generated pages, not the core or template files of ZC itself. Still, worth checking.

Cheers