Here is my contribution with the Greek CIF file
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Sat, 01/19/2008 - 05:44
Re: Greek CIF File
Ahh, very cool. Test on Livetest, will get it committed to core ASAP.
Re: Greek CIF File
For some reason, the text from this CIF does not appear to be encoded/decoded properly. Here's how it is displayed on the country settings screen in the übercart configuration panel:
Ελλάδα GRC 1 disable removeThat is also how it is displayed in mysql, when selected from the command line. This problem seems to be pervasive with any country/zone data that contains unicode characters. Is this a problem with übercart's import, the encoding of the CIF, the configuration of the database or table, or some other problem?
We are using übercart 5.x-1.7 on drupal 5.18
Re: Re: Greek CIF File
It works fine for me. The file I have is encoded in UTF-8, and that's how my pages are being rendered, both in Drupal and in phpMyAdmin. My text editor just displays rectangles, but I suspect that's a font problem since it says the file is UTF-8 (OpenOffice.org displays the characters in Times New Roman perfectly well.), and I wouldn't expect cmd.exe to handle Unicode anyway.
Drupal sets itself up to declare that it renders pages in Unicode, though I suppose a theme could change that. There should be a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> tag in the page.tpl.php file. Your database tables should also be in the utf8_unicode_ci collation as well. I still wouldn't expect your command line to show them correctly, though.
Country Name??!!!
Most CIF files use an English spelling for the country name... But why are Greece, Ukraine, and Iran the only ones spelled in their native tongue???
Using D6 and UC2.2
Re: Country Name??!!!
Failed to mention Peru and Turkey... There may be others, but I count 5 of 149
Re: Country Name??!!!
That's how they were submitted by the people that wrote them. In retrospect, it might be better to translate the files into English, and then use t() to make the names translatable into any language.
Re: Re: Country Name??!!!
I couldn't agree more. In fact, that what I originally expected. For now I've changed the entries in my database, but I assume that any updated CIF imports will knock these back.
I also noticed that the "zones" in some of the CIF files are also in a country's native language.
Thinking exactly what you did with t() to the rescue. I guess English could be the "standard" language for these things, but I also have to recall that some of these developers might not be English-speakers, primarily. I'd rather have something in a non-English language than nothing at all.
Another aside: Perhaps we might reach a day where we could have all CIF files in English, a country's native language, and any other popular options... But all work that I certainly don't have any more time than most to do.
... in an ideal world, eh?
Thank you to all authors and contributors nonetheless for all your efforts.
Drupal and Ubercart TO THA MAAAAAAAAAAXXXXX ! ! ! !
Re: Re: Re: Country Name??!!!
I see this thread is a year old, but I have the most recent version of ubercart and Greece (and I'm guessing Iran and Ukraine) are still in their native tongue, not English.
Is this something that will be fixed?