UTF encoding on Brainstorm

Stéphane Graber stgraber at ubuntu.com
Sat May 10 21:04:37 UTC 2008


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Primož Papič wrote:
> **This is my first post to this mail list; I hope this is the right
> address for my problem.
> 
> I have problem with UTF encoding on Brainstorm site. I used special
> characters for my user name (e.g.: č and ž) which is Primož Papič
> and now I cant access my dashboard to use all the new feature, it
> decreases functionality of the site greatly.
> 
> The error that I get trying to access my dashboard is this:
> 
> *Warning*: pg_query() [function.pg-query
> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/Primo%C5%BE%20Papi%C4%8D/function.pg-query>]:
> Query failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x8d
> HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the
> encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
> "client_encoding". in
> */srv/drupal-qa-tracker/www/includes/database.pgsql.inc* on line *125*
> 
> *Warning*: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x8d HINT:
> This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the
> encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
> "client_encoding". query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message,
> severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (15190,
> 'php', '<em> query: SELECT * FROM users u WHERE LOWER(name) =
> LOWER(&#039;Primo&amp;Aring;&amp;frac34;
> Papi&amp;Auml;�&#039;)</em> in
> <em>/srv/drupal-qa-tracker/www/includes/database.pgsql.inc</em> on line
> <em>144</em>.', 2, '',
> 'http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/contributor/Primo%C5%BE%20Papi%C4%8D/',
> 'http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8338/', '89.212.175.150
> <http://89.212.175.150>', 1210451419) in
> */srv/drupal-qa-tracker/www/includes/database.pgsql.inc* on line *144*
> 
> Hope you can help me with this problem.
> Thank you,
> Primož Papič
> **

It's a known issue for people using special chars in their username.
We have a bug report opened, unfortunately the bug tracker is currently
down for maintenance so I can't point you to it :)

Stéphane

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