New products listing month shows abnormal characters

[OopsIbrickedIT]

ZC 1.5.0, php 5.6

I have a Finnish language pack installed and Finnish is only language in the shop. We have two months June and July which have a letter ä in them and now I noticed it shows up funny question mark in new products for June in the front page.



I checked the Finnish language packs locale and checked supported locale from server and settings do match. Also all the other language related pages shows all the umlauts correctly, only this month name shows wrong.

Many years ago the shop had latin-swedish encoding and few years ago it was transferred to utf-8 encoding.

Where should I start to find the error?

Any help would be greatly appreciated with this small but annoying error.

[lat9]

Refer to this (https://vinosdefrutastropicales.com/blog/?p=309) blog-posting for possible solutions.

[torvista]

The days and months are php-generated. This thread adds more information.
https://github.com/zencart/zencart/issues/973

and I always like to refer back to this for those with insomnia:
https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....e-on-my-server

[OopsIbrickedIT]

Thank you lat9 and torvista, I really am getting some imsomnia but the error was actually quite simple:

finnish.php was "shortened" by unknown translator and was only containing part of info setlocale needs, it was wrongly formatted as

(LC_TIME, 'fi_FI')

when it should have been:

// look in your $PATH_LOCALE/locale directory for available locales..
  @setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fi_FI.utf8');

Now php locale time works correctly.

If someone wants to know their server supported locales below is a script you can upload to server and check it out. Just change the fi to your country code:

<?php
echo "<hr><br>The available 'locale' strings for 'fi' on this server are:<br>";
echo '<pre>';
system('locale -a | grep -i fi');
echo '</pre>';
?>