German Umlaute not working

Ross Moderator

#37070

Having a look at this later on today.

Very strange, feels like I’ve fixed this bug 10x now already :/

Anonymous

#37727

Sorry to bring that subject up again but could you find the time to look into the issue?

Thanks

Georg

Ross Moderator

#37803

Hey Hans

No worries at all – I’m looking into this – hopefully have a patch later on today / tomorrow.

Thanks

Anonymous

#44215

Hey Ross,

just checked if there is a new version out (I’m on 2.1.2), because Umlaut are still not working for me. Any chance of fixing this some time soon?

Thanks,

Georg

Ross Moderator

#44878

Hey Georg

I tested this again just now on my dev copy and umlauts etc are working fine…

I’ve just sent you this in case.

Did you try to disable the “search everything” plugin, perhaps there is a conflict there?

Thanks

Anonymous

#55217

Hi Ross,

deactivated “search everything” and rebuild cache but still no luck: as long as the search contains no special characters, everything works fine. As soon as I add a german Umlaut like ä,ö,ü, search isn’t working, ie nothing happens/no change in URL, etc.
I now have Relevanssi up and running, but the Umlaut-problem remains.

Some further system info: WP4.6 Multisite, Custom Post Types created with Custom Post UI-Plugin, S&F Pro 2.2.0, Relevanssi, auto submit form, using shortcodes, using AJAX.

Any other ideas what could cause the error?

Trevor

#55225

Can you confirm that your PHP server has the iconv extension installed? If you don’t know how to find this out, the simplest way is to install this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/phpinfo-print/

and then search for this strng:

iconv support and if it is there that it is enabled

This is the library that supports international character conversion in PHP.

Anonymous

#55242

Hi Trevor,

thanks for your quick reply. Iconv is enabled, v2.19

iconv support enabled
iconv implementation glibc
iconv library version 2.19

Thanks,

Georg

Trevor

#55713

Hi Georg

We have spent hours on this. We can’t replicate what’s going on, but I will tell you what IS going on.

Our plugin encodes the HTML characters for the URL bar. A browser will render them as they SHOULD look. But, in your case, something else, probably another javascript, is grabbing that encoded URL and encoding it again, making it unreadable by the browser (hence what you see). From there on it is downhill; nothing will work.

In the first instance, we need to get you the latest dev version of the plugin (2.2.1). Can you give me an email address to send it to? Installation instructions:

Installation instructions:

1) Deactivate S&F in WP Admin Plugins page (do not delete, otherwise you will lose your search form)
2) Via FTP, delete search-filter-pro folder from the wp-content\plugins folder on your server. If you wish to keep the folder, just in case, do NOT rename it, instead move it UP a folder into the wp-content folder.
3) Unzip the file I will have sent to you.
4) Upload the search-filter-pro folder to the wp-content\plugins folder on your server.
5) Activate Search and Filter plugin in WP Admin plugins page

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