Truncation isn't UTF-8 compatible

[kirkstrobeck]

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Having issues with German characters being broken into non characters,
my guess is a UTF-8 substring error somewhere ..

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Zeichnen Sie mit dem Kinder-Schminkstift Grün eine ovale Form über das ganze Gesicht. Anschließend mischen Sie aus den Tiegel-Farben Grün, Gelb und Weiß ein blasses gelb-grün zusammen und malen damit die Fläche mit dem breiten Pinsel aus.

I checked thru the code and saw your mb_substring fix anf the call to self, so I'm stumped :(

The XSLT error page displays

loadXML(): Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xC3 0x26 0x23 0x38 in Entity, line: 760

[nitriques]

@animaux Would this be useful ? We have a method in the General class that handles mb_string when installed.

[animaux]

I haven’t encountered this myself but it would be useful to since it should not only affect german chars but plenty other UTF characters. (I think.)

[michael-e]

I remember that the UTF-8 truncation issue has been fixed in the Symphony core some time ago. (Probably it uses the method from the General class which @nitriques mentioned.)

[animaux]

@michael-e So this is likely fixed then?

[michael-e]

Yes, it is fixed in the core, as far as I know. One might take a look there to see how it has been done. :-)

[animaux]

That would likely be pearls before swine in my case :D.

[michael-e]

So you can only hope for @nitriques getting his hands dirty while you sit back and relax. :-)

[animaux]

Better than the ol’ carpenter fixing the delicate watch clockwork, I guess.

[nitriques]

Great to see this! Closing!