Encoding problem after 4.13.gpl GPL update

Submitted by Pierrot on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 11:16

Hello,

Just updated 3 servers (2xDebian 6 and 1x7) with 4.13.gpl GPL from 4.12 and I see numerous encoding problem in French like "Serveur de base de données MySQL ", right on the landing page but also on the following pages. I switched to english US but I thought I'd let you know. Needless to say, everything was ok previously. I also tried switching back and forth, same ...

Pierre

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Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by Pierrot on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 11:28

More info:

  • I see the pbm on both Firefox and Safari (up to date) on a Mac 10.10
  • on both it seems that encoding defaults to iso8859-1 because there is no charset declaration ?
  • if I ask specifically for utf8 encoding, it goes back to normal but a few places like "Se déconnecter" where the "é" becomes a question mark in black losange ...

So I guess that either the encoding was changed on purpose for utf8 but no charset is mentionned to browser which defaults usually to iso8859 (and a few places still have iso8859 encoding creating the opposite problem) or some language files have been encoded in utf8 mistakenly ...

Submitted by anrikun on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 16:39

Same problem here.
Also, scheduled backup doesn't work any more:
mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'xxxx'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect
My OS is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 00:48

So does this problem happen regardless of whether you select the fr or fr.UTF8 language?

Submitted by Pierrot on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 02:38

Hello,

  • 1
  • VM=Virtualmin (using "Change Language" on the System Information page)
  • FF= Firefox (Using using "Display->Character encoding")

  • Result: I take the "System Parameters" in the left frame that should be "Paramètres système" in french and "Disconnect" at the bottom that shoud be "Se déconnecter" in fr.

  • 2

  • VM: Current language French (FR) / System default language French (FR.UTF-8)
  • FF: Occidental (I didn't check it, it's checked)

  • Result: "Paramètres système" and "Se déconnecter"

  • 3

  • VM: Current language French (FR) / System default language French (FR.UTF-8)
  • FF: Unicode
  • Result: "Paramètres système" and "Se d�connecter"

Meaning (my experience) for the first test that "Paramètres système" is encoded in utf8 by VM but decoded as iso8859-1 by FF (my guess: no charset declared in HTML, both frameset and frame so FF defaults to iso8859-1). "Se déconnecter" is encoded iso8859-1 so appears correctly on the first test.

On the second test, I force FF to decode utf8 so utf8-encoded "Paramètres système" is ok, but "Se déconnecter" being iso8859-1 is now bad.

Hope this helps. Pierre.

PS: wow it's really difficult to have so nice formatting to make things clear, I hope this will be ok for you.

Submitted by anrikun on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 15:49

What changed in latest release that broke this? Maybe it could be reverted.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 01/08/2015 - 23:49

Ok, I tracked this down - the cause was an incorrect encoding on the French translation files in the 4.13 release. The next version will fix it, but the work-around till then is to run :

cd /usr/{share,libexec}/webmin/virtual-server/lang
cp fr fr.UTF-8
iconv -f UTF-8 -t iso-8859-1 fr.UTF-8 > fr
rm /etc/webmin/virtual-server/links-cache/*

Submitted by Pierrot on Fri, 01/09/2015 - 01:55

Ok thks for the fix. Pierre.

Submitted by Issues on Fri, 01/23/2015 - 10:40

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.