Problems with html special chars

[Devis]

I am using html encoding codes to encode special characters in our localization, for example I translate

-> "Activities" with "Attività"

and encode it as

-> "Attività" in the localization files.

I have found that using Grouped Modules Navigation this cause errors, because Javascript doesn't support array keys like this

SUGAR.themes.subTabs['Attivit&#38;#224;']= '<ul class=\'subTabs\' onclick="SUGAR.themes.chooseTab(\'Attivit&#38;#224 ;\');return true;"><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Activities&action=index">At tivit&#38;#224;</a></li><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Calendar&action=index">Cale ndario</a></li><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Emails&action=index">Email</a></li><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Calls&action=index">Chiamat e</a></li><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Meetings&action=index">Riun ioni</a></li><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Tasks&action=index">Compiti </a></li><li class="subTab"><a href="index.php?module=Notes&action=index">Note</a></li></ul>';

Is this considered a bug ?

The string is "LBL_TABGROUP_ACTIVITIES" in "include\language\it_it.lang.php"

[clint]

Why are you using HTML encoded characters in the language pack? I don't think this would be a bug as we designed the system to understand all the different code pages and so expect the language packs to include the normal characters and not HTML characters. So we never expect to see HTML encoded characters in the Javascript.

Be sure to save the language pack file as UTF8 encoding.

Regards,
Clint

[Devis]

Hi Clint,
I understand your point of view, but saving text file in UTF8 encoding make possible to break them editing in a normal text editor like wordpad. We choose to use HTML encoding to be more compatible with Apache settings, browser settings, operating system settings and light editors (like Wordpad).
We will release next packages in UTF8, but I think that using localized strings as JS indexes may cause other problems in future.
Regards