Product name with weird characters inside mini cart in 2.0.16

[etna]

Hello
After upgrade from 2.0.14 to 2.0.16, clicking "add to cart", the popup mini-cart shows the product name with weird characters (Î�Î�§Î¤Î¥Î�Î�Î�).
The cart module and the check out page are OK.
The VM 2 is multilingual in Greek and English.
I checked all db tables and are OK (utf8_general_ci )
I forced Database Collation to utf8_general_ci with Admin Tools without luck.
Any ideas?

Thank you
Joomla 2.5.8 | VM 2.0..16 | PHP 5.3.13

[bytelord]

Thanks strange,

Haven't test it with greek yet also, any live url?

[bytelord]

Hello again,

Hoping the re-Collation did not Collation the data wrong...

I test it with a localsite, i updated and everything is working fine with Greek characters... Please provide a live url, i am thinking that may be there is a js conflict and the javascript function encodeURIComponent is not running properly inside vmprices.js ... not sure, but we can check it ...

Regards

[etna]

Sorry
I tested in WAMP not in live server.
I will make a new clean installation to check it.
Thank you

[bytelord]

Hello,

I tested on XAMPP, works fine, also check your database, are the data readable?

[bytelord]

Take a look also on that post: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=110647.0

[etna]

Clean Joomla 2.5.8 installation on WAMP
clean VM 2.0.16 installation
Joomla original template
Data Base has readable records in Greek

The same problem in mini-cart

[bytelord]

I don't know, is strange, test it again working fine ... if you try to change the browser encoding from it's options?

[etna]

Made all possible encodings in firefox  - 
The strange is that at Shopping cart module and in check out page the name is OK.

[bytelord]

etna,

yes i reproduce it ... i am looking at it ...

[bytelord]

hmm ...

The problem is inside template files, specific under productdetails/tmpl/default_addtocart.php

around line 103

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<input type="hidden" class="pname" value="<?php echo htmlentities($this->product->product_name) ?>"/>

change it to:

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<input type="hidden" class="pname" value="<?php echo htmlentities($this->product->product_name, ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8') ?>"/>
and will work.

This was added from a suggestion in the forum but causes issues because didn't parse the encoding for compatibility with multi-byte 8-bit Unicode

Fix added in 2.1 trunk

Thanks for finding that tiny bug

Regards

[etna]

Thank you Nikos.
The code worked fine locally.

I owe you a drink!
maybe a... raki?

[bytelord]

Nice

I prefer raki, but i drink too much raki yesterday

[etna]

Thats why you are so fast and genius!

[jenkinhill]

Hey should I try some of that?