utf i18n override in an extention

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risto CMS user	Friday 10 February 2006 1:04:30 am I'm bulding an extention where I need utf8 output in an xml file. its going to be used in a flash animation so I realuy don't have an alternative. what I have atcheaved: If I set i18n.ini.append.php to: [CharacterSettings] Charset=utf8 then the flash animation is perfect. The problem the is the site it self. Its an non utf8 mysql. And I can't doo anything about it. If I try loading {let $classFilter = ezini( 'Classes', 'Charset', 'i18n.ini' )} from the extention settings It dos not override the settings. My question is: Is this at all posible? Would you mind showing me how?
Steph A	Friday 10 February 2006 5:31:40 am Hello. I got just the same probelm as you do. And I have tried to solve this for a long time now. For me its either the content of the site thats getting messed up (when UFT-8) - or the xml output produces an error because its got special chars in norwegian (iso-8859-1). Of course everything works fine in XML when using iso-8859-1 - but then the flash application messes it up because it cant read iso-8859-1 properly.... :( Are you using the RSS feed - or have you made a new layoutmodule? just wondering
Steph A	Friday 10 February 2006 8:21:27 am By the way, also tried to convert only the infected string into utf-8, with the utf_encode parameter (in template.ini)- but it seems this doesnt work either. I only get fatal error. But, how does the existing RSS-module output UTF-8 through template code? Because I tried inserting special chars. into the feed - and load them into an .swf file with the xml-connector, and this actually worked as intended. The chars. where displayed as normal - but through the "regular" template-override system - it does not work! What to do? Anyone please?
Steph A	Saturday 11 February 2006 9:54:06 am I finally made it work! Make sure your mysql-database is set to UTF-8. Change the templates (site.ini, template.ini and i18.ini). I am also using the fck-editor, and then you also must make sure that the template literal.tpl - is encoded into UTF-8. Because this made some extra unwanted symbols in the content (two questionmarks where shown) - this is probably because the template was written with another encoding, and the data corrupted due to this conversion. Anyway, now my content is looking fine - and my flash application (with XML connector) reads the XML output just fine (with norwegian special chars.). :D
risto CMS user	Monday 13 February 2006 12:24:07 am well I couldent set the databes to utf-8. but I got it to work. in template.ini.appand.php I set this variable: PHPOperatorList[to_utf8]=utf8_encode and in the templates I set the spesific field to: {$node.name\|to_utf8}