[Not a Bug] you can't use letters like ä ö å æ ø when customers creat/editing address

So we did some testing today, and surprisingly i never thought that zen cart would have such old known bug.

If you create an account and you use letters like ä ö å æ ø for Scandinavian country's the account is going to be made with the tags but all your settings like address, name, last name and so on is totally wiped.

This also counts for trying to update the addresses after with the letters i took a screenshot to show you what i mean, This is with ALL information added on registration page on the left side of the picture and and trying to update with letters after on right side of the picture.

Found out that you actually can update to the correct names via the admin interface, but as a customer/user you will have a hard time trying to figure out what the h3ll is going on, not even to talk about, customer registrations could look like fake/scams, since they technically could write an adress like Horse Road 1 Æ Horse Road 2 but only the text from behind Æ would be picked up for registration so outcome would be

Horse Road 1

when in fact it should

Horse Road 1 Æ Horse Road 2

And if there's ANY that knows how to fix that as a hotfix right here and right now, we will glady take it since a lot of our are from Scandinavia or Germany.

There's nothing wrong about customers being allowed to use ä ö å æ ø characters.

english.php - What's CHARSET defined to?
database tables - what's the collation set to in each of those fields?

Did your site run v1.3.x at one point, and you upgraded? If so, you probably failed to retain the old CHARSET when upgrading.

ie: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?313-should-i-convert-my-store-from-iso-8859-1-to-utf8

DrByte:

There's nothing wrong about customers being allowed to use ä ö å æ ø characters.

english.php - What's CHARSET defined to?
database tables - what's the collation set to in each of those fields?

Did your site run v1.3.x at one point, and you upgraded? If so, you probably failed to retain the old CHARSET when upgrading.

ie: http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?313-should-i-convert-my-store-from-iso-8859-1-to-utf8

This is no upgrade, first time we use zen cart so v1.51

And we use lang=en/english.

Thanks Pal it worked to change it to utf-8

I dont know it it was supposed to be this

define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1');

But we changed it to and it works!!!

define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');

Out-of-the-box, Zen Cart v1.5.1 uses utf8 by default.

DrByte:

Out-of-the-box, Zen Cart v1.5.1 uses utf8 by default.

I'm sorry then yes, it was the theme who took over the english.php with an extra file which was not updated from the download section, sorry about blaming zen cart ;)