Server Change - rtf export faiure

[Knut Krüger]

Hi to all we changed the server and now there are problems with the rtf export. The page is blank.
Hi Matthias, Hi
I changed the depends path (external database) but the old installation is working fine with the wrong path

The file attributes are set - the exec dir is set , what else could i look for?

Kind regards Knut

[Richard Karnesky]

Have you enabled error logging & read your log?

IIRC, RTF doesn't rely on the depends path.

[Knut Krüger]

Hi Karnesky,
with errors I get an notice very often:
Notice: iconv() : Wrong charset, conversion from `ISO-8859-1' to `UTF-8//IGNORE' is not allowed in /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/includes/include.inc.php  on line 5385

and after set Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (ou…
because of the notice.

and after that:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/includes/include.inc.php:5385) in /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/includes/include.inc.php  on line 5150

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/includes/include.inc.php:5385) in /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/search.php on line 1980
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252 {\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red128\green0\blue0;\red0\green128\blue0;\red128\green128\blue0;\red0\green0\blue128;\red128\green0\blue128;\red0\green128\blue128;\red128\green128\blue128;\red192\green192\blue192;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green255\blue0;\red255\green255\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;\red255\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue255;\red255\green255\blue255;} {\fonttbl {\f0\fcharset0 Arial;} {\f1\fcharset0 Times New Roman;} } \qj\li360\ri0\fi-360 {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} {\f1\fs24 \par} }
Kind regards Knut

[Richard Karnesky]

Notice: iconv() : Wrong charset, conversion from `ISO-8859-1' to `UTF-8//IGNORE' is not allowed in /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/includes/include.inc.php on line 5385

See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44096 for some common causes of why iconv can't find your character sets.  One possible work-around if you and your server administrators cannot figure out how to fix this would be to use mb_convert_encoding().  It is worth addressing this notice, as it refers to the same line of code in the actual warnings.  You should also check for other character set issues:
http://refbase.textdriven.com/Installation-Troubleshooting#Problems_with_special_characters

[Knut Krüger]

Hi Richard,
I tried to reproduce the problem:
The code is working with mb_convert_encoding as you can see in
http://references.equine-behaviour.de/unicode_test.php
but refbase is sending:

Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Wrong charset, conversion from `ISO-8859-1' to `UTF-8//IGNORE' is not allowed in /home/www/a0404272112/html/uni/refdb/includes/include.inc.php on line 5388
$sourceCharset: ISO-8859-1 $targetCharset//$transliteration UTF-8//IGNORE $sourceString: (1901). The Traffic In Old Horses. {\i The Lancet}, {\i 157}(4042), 495.

I coded the line in $convertedString = mb_convert_encoding($sourceString,'utf-8','iso-8859-1');
and it is working.
So what could be the workaround to use $sourceCharset, "$targetCharset//$transliteration" without getting the error from (in my opinion) UTF-8//IGNORE

Ok I could delete the /IGNORE but I do not know what else could be inside the $targetCharset//$transliteration an what problem this would cuase else.

Kind regards Knut

[Knut Krüger]

Hi Richard,
what do you think: Does this will handle all possibilities of the content: "$targetCharset//$transliteration"?

    $temp=explode("//", "$targetCharset//$transliteration");
            if ( $temp[1]== 'IGNORE')
                 $utf_string = $temp[0];
            else                                            
            $utf_string = "$targetCharset//$transliteration";                                           
            $convertedString = mb_convert_encoding($sourceString,$utf_string,$sourceCharset);

Kind Regards Knut

[Richard Karnesky]

So what could be the workaround to use $sourceCharset, "$targetCharset//$transliteration" without getting the error from (in my opinion) UTF-8//IGNORE

Well, again, the error is really that your server is misconfigured & is likely missing some files that are needed to use iconv.

$transliteration can only be null or 'IGNORE' or 'TRANSLIT', so your function seems reasonable to me.

-Rick