Ralf

Topic: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

When I search for a company with an umlaut in the name, I find no results. Searching for jobtitle or cities with umlauts seem to work fine. Where could be that bug?

Example: http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de
search for  "Mülheim" (city) works
search for "Büro" works (jobtitle and jobdescription)
search for "hüttinger": no result (select it from the drop-down "Firmen" works though)

as always: any help or guess where to start is appreciated!
Cheers, Ralf

Last edited by Ralf (2011-06-10 08:22:20)

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

anyone has the same problem? French? Spanish? Anyone?
Cheers, Ralf

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

Still no one here to help on the search? The search is the core function - I would really like to hear any ideas. Will it ever work?
Thanks, Ralf

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putypuruty

Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

I had a quick look some time ago but I didn't find the reason for why it's not working. I'll take some time to fix this, OK?

Ralf

Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

yes, sure - would be great to get some help on that one. Tell me if I can help - test something - or whatever.
Cheers, Ralf

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

one more thing that I just found. Maybe it helps?
When we post a job, we add some Keywords at the end - the most important ones. We link them to the search: ...jobboard.../search/keyword - where keyword is obviously the keyword. If there is an umlaut in there, and the search goes e.g. for "/search/Köchin", there are no results. If I change that to "/search/Köchin, the search returns that job. As we post jobs usually through the html interface of the editor - extension by Redjumpsuit, I guess there could be a problem in the replace functionality (of the search or editor?).
Don't know if that helps - just thought I post everything I find.
Cheers, Ralf

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

It would really be a big thing to get this working. I create a lot of "pseudo pages" for nice usability and the sitemaps that I create with a tool crawling by putting "interesting keywords for this job" at the end of every job. There you can have pages like "http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de/search/Account%20Manager" (where you put "Account Manager" at the URL after search/)
This page is also filled with perfect content - so that could be a nice one for everyone who wants jobberbase to get a lot of links to goolge. It's relevant and good for users as well as search engines. As german language has umlauts this is a real big thing here. I found some confusing resultes when testing. It seems, that it works for the jobtitle but not for text within the jobs. I use TinyMCE to post jobs - don't know if that has anything to do with it.
E.g.:
http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de/sear … hentechnik
in my browser it shows http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de/sear … hentechnik
doesn't work - search word is "Oberflächentechnik"

You can find that word on interesting keywords (Passende Suchbegriffe) at the end of the job
http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de/job/ … nkel-gmbh/

But http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de/search/Gesch%C3%A4ft
Browser shows http://www.jobboard-deutschland.de/search/Geschäft
works. Keyword "Geschäft" (Like in CEO = Geschäftsführer)

It's confusing. Can I do anything to get this fixed? Should I do more testing? What can I try?
As always - any help appreaciated.

Cheers, Ralf

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

;o) how long would be "some time" ... End of June to End of August?

Seriously - I know there is loads of work out there - for sure for you too.

Can I pay someone to get this fixed? Anyone?

Cheers, Ralf

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

This problem is an issue - and could be / should be for everyone who has special characters in their language. We need a fix here. Is there any idea out there?

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hobo

Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

Hi Ralf,
Have you tried adding entity_encoding : 'raw' to your template's header.tpl files (frontend and admin) like:

Code:

 tinyMCE_GZ.init({
         plugins : 'style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,media,searchreplace,contextmenu,paste,directionality,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras',
         themes : 'advanced',
         languages : 'en',
         disk_cache : true,
                 entity_encoding : 'raw',
         debug : false
         });

http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configuration:entity_encoding

Hope it works, as I will need this fix for adding French to my site.

Try adding new data to test with as old data could be incorrectly encoded already.
Please post if it works.

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Ralf

Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

no - haven't tried yet. Will do soon! Thanks, Ralf

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Re: Problem with umlauts - but only on the company name?

Thanks to Cosmin, we have a solution for this:

change in _includes/class.Job.php: I've changed line 776 from

Code:

conditions .= 'AND (title LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" OR description LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" OR outside_location LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" '.$check_cities.' ) ';

to

Code:

$conditions .= 'AND (title LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" OR description LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" OR company LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" OR outside_location LIKE "%' . $keywords_r[$i] . '%" '.$check_cities.' ) ';

pretty easy - if you know what to do ;o)

Thanks a 1000 times ;o)

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