00317: using utf-8 causes "Fatal Error"
Description:
I tried to use UTF-8 with pmwiki, using the suggestion in the FAQ to
This causes an error on all pages of my wiki, the error is:
Im thinking its due to the fact that I am using apache on Windows XP and/or the fact that the OS is Japanese..
I marked this as high priority because it is essentially a "crash".. though obviously i can get around it by not enabling UTF8.
I got the the same error message (the path in the error message is differnt, according to my installation).
So it seems not to be a problem of Japanese windows, as my system language is German.
regards, Herbert
I got the chance to test UTF-8-enabling on another platform:
... and got: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_strtoupper() in C:\apache\htdocs\pmwiki\scripts\xlpage-utf-8.php(60) : regexp code on line 1
After changing the config.php back, PmWiki is running wonderful again.
Sorry to bother you, but I would like it so much to use this nice software (Thanks for all the work done!!) in both German and Greek.
Bye, Herbert
The function mb_strtoupper() should be with PHP>=4.3.0 to make a string uppercase according to the manual. There's also the following sample to test the function (save it to test.php anywhere on your webserver and call it from your browser).
<?php
$str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So";
$str = mb_strtoupper($str);
print $str; # Prints MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB AND SHE LOVED IT SO
?>
And yes, I'm getting the mentioned error on both of my machines with that little test. So far I got it.
That means the function is not available. I learn that to have it available PHP has to be compiled with mbstring support enabled (that is on both of my machines) and the php.ini has to be set propperly - and here's the problem, cause it isn't. On my test machines I could do that now, but on the settings of my provider I don't have that opportunity.
So does that mean, no way of using UTF-8 then? Or could there be a way with limitting the Wikiwords to ASCII only?
Thanks, Herbert