Problem with Greek pack

[hrinfo]

Hi everyone,

I have the cart running and everything so far works fine in demo. Now I have started adding categories using the Greek language. Nevertheless some items are accepted in Greek but then others are rejected.

You can see it here: http://www.cubebookstores.gr/shop/in...index&cPath=69

There you will see that it has a subcategory called "Λογοτ&#" instead of "Λογοτεχνία"

Version 1.3.8

Probably it is something silly but any idea/help/hint will be appreciated.

Tassos

[hrinfo]

Hi,

I have installed the greek pack but when I try to enter categories some letters are not accepted. Any ideas?

For example a category displays as Λογοτ&# instead of Λογοτεχνία . This is strange as I can enter the same phrase in the description without any problem. You can see it here:

http://www.cubebookstores.gr/shop/in...ex&cPath=69_70

I am using v1.3.8

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Tassos

[Webskipper]

Tassos:

I am constantly checking for new versions so this is it. I am going to attempt to get this right. All previous contributions did not work.

Try

iso-8859-7

You are using

iso-8859-1

[zoreli]

Sorry for bumping the thread, but I have the very same problem.

While on other (information) pages Greek letters with accent are accepted normaly, there is problem with categories.

I use charset=iso-8859-7 - no result...

Can someone help about this?

Regards, Zoreli

[zoreli]

I open the database, and the length of the categories_name in the table categories_description vas (varchar 32 or 35) ...I cant recall now.


I make it varchar (255) and it work like a charm.

That is because Greek data for each letter in the database look like: &%ERED and all this for one letter only, so you can imagine.

Regards, Zoreli

[Webskipper]

Where exactly?

[zoreli]

Where exactly?

1. Open your database with PHP My Admin
2. Locate the table categories_description
3. Edit the length of categories_name to (varchar 255)

Current length of this field is 32 or 35, make it 255, and the problem will be fixed.

Hope this help
Regards, Zoreli

[Webskipper]

Before I do that, will this fix my problem that when I edit the pages via ftp the letters get fouled and I have to upload the pack as is without corrections?

[zoreli]

I dont know. I never edit pages via FTP.
I dont know how that work.

My sugestion is:

• to delete your language pack from server
• to make the change in the database and then
• to upload fresh language pack.

It should work.

[hrinfo]

Hi ,

I have solved the problem with the Greek language. I will try to explain it below but want to make it clear that i do not understand myself why it worked but it did and I didn't have to touch anything on the database neither I am a programmer. Here it goes:

* I am using Zen cart v1.3.8 (could not get 1.3.8a to work)
* I am using Greek language pack 1.00 (a big thank you goes to to Krom)

Now to the solution:
Shop front:
Before you upload the files in shop/includes/languages/ find the file shop/includes/languages/greek.php
Make sure that the following lines are reading like that:
Line #21 : @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'greek.iso-8859-7'); (that's the one I changed from US to greek)
Line #48 : define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-7');

Admin:
As there is no admin version of the Greek language, I copied the English version and renamed the folder to Greek and the english.php to greek.php like shop/admin/includes/languages/greek.php

I edited the charset to read:
Line #63 : define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-7');

Now I can write and read in Greek like normal with long sentences etc. and without the letters getting messed up.

As I said as I am no expert whatsoever I may have just got lucky but it is worth giving it a shot. Also I am hosting in US server so maybe that has an impact.

Good luck

Tassos