These are just 'bogus characters' if your editor (and/or Unix shell) is not capable of reading UTF-8 encoded text. But in the case of this file it's no problem to have it in LATIN1 encoding.
You should change the setting of your Apache web server to use UTF-8 as default encoding, otherwise Firefox will typically not recognize correctly the pages as being encoded in UTF-8 and also stumble over the 'bogus characters'. See also here: http://svn.pmapper.net/trac/wiki/FaqDebugging#Problemswithcharacterencodings Since UTF-8 is the only encoding scheme that can handle special characters of any kind I never test any other encoding setting. Pure English applications might work with Latin1 settings, but you might encounter problems like this sooner or later (that I will not discover). armin Matt Doggett wrote: > Armin- > > Follow up on this problem. When switching to pmapper 3.2, we discovered a > file with erroneous data in it that apparently IE is able to deal with, but > causes problems in Firefox. The problem is in ./incphp/js_locales.php. > Firefox reports the following error: > >>> Invalid character! "// ARRAY FOR ANNOTATIONS". Line 1. > ./incphp/js_locales.php. > > If you look at the file in a "windows" text editor, there's nothing there. > But in a unix editor (e.g. vim) the bogus characters show up. I delete > these, and the application works fine again. This was the case with the > pmapper3.1 version as well. In fact, I just checked the 3.2-beta3 version > off of Sourceforge and the error is still in there. > > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt > Doggett > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:35 AM > To: pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [pmapper-users] no query in Firefox with Pmapper3.1 > > Armin- > > Well, our fix for this problem was to use Pmapper3.2 beta. Apparently it's > been resolved. No action needed further on this. > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt > Doggett > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:38 PM > To: pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [pmapper-users] no query in Firefox with Pmapper3.1 > > We're using pmapper 3.1 and it works great in IE but with Firefox, the query > function does nothing. No errors. No display. No popup. Nada. Checked the > Apache/PHP error logs and nothing there either. Everything else > works/displays just fine. I tried changing the infowin setting in > config.ini to 'window' or 'frame'. There a window pops up, but is completely > empty-nothing there. > > > > Any suggestions where the problem might be? > > > > Matt > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > pmapper-users mailing list > pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > pmapper-users mailing list > pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > pmapper-users mailing list > pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ pmapper-users mailing list pmapper-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmapper-users
