Special characters in .map file

[Sam]

Does anybody know by any chance if it is possible to represent the
french charceters 'é', 'è' or for that matter the German Umlauts
'ö','ä' etc. as part of words describing states (in French or German)
in the .map files? I tried it and an 'é' for example results ina 2
letter garbage.

[Kai Kreuzer]

These files must be in UTF-8 encoding. Then all special characters are
supported.
You can simply use the openHAB Designer to edit these files, it makes
sure that the encoding is UTF-8.

Regards,
Kai

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[Sam]

Yes but I used openHAB Designer to edit the files. The characters show
up ok in Designer but not in the iOS client.

Thanks,

Sam

[Kai Kreuzer]

Sounds like a bug in the iOS client then. Can you confirm that it is showing the characters correctly in the Classic (Web) UI?
If so, please enter a bug report in the issue tracker.

Thanks,
Kai

[Victor Belov]

Hi,

I'm using TextMate on Mac to edit openHAB configs, I have russian cyrillic names of items in utf-8, no problems with showing them on iOS client!

Best regards,

Victor Belov

[Sam]

I tried the Classic (Web) UI and the characters do not show up
correctly there either unless I write them with the UTF-8 encoding
(e.g. for an 'e' I have to write an '&#233;' in openHAB Designer);
then those special characters show up correctly in the WebUI but still
not in the iOS app.

And yes I am also successfully using French characters (typed normally
as 'é' in Designer) in the .item file; the problem only seems to
appear for special characters in the .map file.

Sam

[Kai]

I have just tried it myself and it looks fine both on the Classic UI as well as on the iOS UI:

Not sure what the problem could be on your side...

Regards,
Kai

[Sam]

Thank you Kai for your help. I um anable to get this result. I double-checked that I save in UTF-8 encoding in Designer and even used a second text editor to save in UTF-8.

I always get this: (see the attached picture)

 

Sam

 

 

[Kai Kreuzer]

Could you send me your map file so I can have a try with it?

Kai

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[Mihail Panayotov]

On which OS you run openHAB runtime?

[Sam]

I attached one of  my .map files. I am running runtime under Windows 7.

 

Thanks for the help,

 

Sam 

[Pablo Romeu]

It is the way you save your file. Maybe you are saving it as
ISO-8859??? It shows like this in Safari:

OPEN=d&#233;verrouill�e
CLOSED=verrouill�e
undefined=indefini
-=-

>  lock.map
> < 1 KBVerDescargar

[Mihail Panayotov]

Yes, it's the file. Open it with Notepad and save it again as UTF-8 (you have Encoding dropdown on the Save As dialog window). It should work.

[Sam]

I am unable to get it to work, no matter what I try. I saved it with Notepad and UTF-8 as you suggested. This results in either the same or sometimes no display of .map translations at all...

[Mihail Panayotov]

Well, the only thing that comes to my mind is this:

Go to Control Panel -> Region and Language and got to the "Administrative" tab (the last one). Look at "Language for non-Unicode programs" and change it to your desired language.

[Maze]

any solution? I have the same problem with Swdish öäå. I'm running OH SNAPSHOT 1.4.0 on win7 64 bit.

[Kai Kreuzer]

There should be no problem if proper UTF-8 is used. Works nicely for me and others…

Am 15 Nov 2013 um 16:51 schrieb Maze <ysta...@gmail.com>:

> any solution? I have the same problem with Swdish öäå. I'm running OH SNAPSHOT 1.4.0 on win7 64 bit.
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[Maze]

I do not understand what I'm doing wrong. The file is UTF-8 coded and I have checked the "locale" parameter is set to Swedish. I attached the file I'm using.

[Kai Kreuzer]

I’ve put the attached file in my demo setup and get this screen:

[Maze]

ok and thanks for the test. Then the the problem must be with the OS.

[jana...@gmail.com]

I also get same error

using Windows 7 32 bit Swedish

I see there is an de.map and an en.map - if Icreate a se.map file - how will OpenHab now to use that file? (or the DE) file?

[jana...@gmail.com]

I tested alittle more:

using English version of Windows 7.

change language and system local to German Germany.

date is presented in German as Montag so that is ok.

en.map :

CLOSED=stängd_enmap

OPEN=öpen_enmap

undefined=okänd

in Android and Chrome, IE, Firefoxopen is shown as below

• öpen_enmap

I have by-the-way problem in IE version 11 which hangs almost directly Firefox and Chrome works though

/Janne

[Kai Kreuzer]

Did you make sure you edited it with the openHAB Designer to have proper UTF-8 format?

> I have by-the-way problem in IE version 11 which hangs almost directly Firefox and Chrome works though

IE is not supported, only webkit-based browsers will work as expected.

Regards,
Kai

[Kai Kreuzer]

I see there is an de.map and an en.map - if Icreate a se.map file - how will OpenHab now to use that file? (or the DE) file?

Simply reference the se.map in your item or sitemap files - at the moment you will find en.map used in the label definitions there.

Regards,

Kai

[jana...@gmail.com]

yes I used openhab designer.

could you upload an en.map file with åäö so I can download and replace mine just to make sure it is not my saving which is the error?

/Janne

[Kai Kreuzer]

Here you go, including a proof that the UI renders it correctly.

Regards,

Kai

[jana...@gmail.com]

thanks

I get 

Ã¥  for open where you had ä i en.map

another thing I get this error

23:53:58.255 WARN  o.o.c.t.i.s.MapTransformationService[:90]- Could not find a mapping for '-' in the file 'en.map'.

if I had a mapping row

-=code-demap

I get response 

code-enmap

so mapping file seems to work but value is sometimes -

/Janne

[Mampfes]

Hi, I see the same problem here with OpenHAB 1.3.1 and a Windows 7, 64Bit, english PC. 

I tested e.g. the german Umlaut ä (Unicode U+00E4). In the .map file it is correctly stored as "C4 A4" (UTF-8 conversation of U+00E4).

However, in the HTML document I get a "C3 83 C2 A4"! This is exactly the UTF-8 conversion of "C4 A4". Therefore I assume there is - under certain circumstances - a double UTF-8 conversion of strings from .map files within OpenHAB.

[Artyom]

Try convert .map file to "UTF-8 (wo BOM)"  by "notepad+ +" free editor, not "UTF-8".

[cal]

Hi,

I am curious...
Which windows program generates files with BOM?

Carsten

[Mark]

Notepad++ is one that sticks in the BOM prefix chars (per above comment also).  If you use it to open an existing file, or to edit a new one, and you're not careful then it'll cause issues for some software (including my previous HA Controller)

[Andreas]

I'm also trying to get the Swedish characters åäö to show correctly in the Android UI. The map file has been saved in openHAB designe. I'm running the runtime on a Windows 7, 64bit PC with Swedish language used. It would be great if someone could look into fixing this bug (#1711 ?)

Thanks! :)

[Siegfried H.]

I'm also trying to get the Swedish characters åäö to show correctly in the Android UI.

In my case (german umlauts) it helped to write the characters like

\u00F6

for the hex code

U+00F6

.

This would give an "ö" in the GUI and the Android App. Didn't test iOS.

Siegfried

[Andreas Nordvall]

Perfect! Many thanks Siegfried!

I can confirm it works both with the Android UI and iOS UI :)

Best regards,
Andreas

> This would give an "ö" in the GUI and the Android App. Didn' test iOS.
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