[Solved] Weird letters / punctuation problem

[dadionysos]

Hello,

The free version of GTranslate is working fine, but now I have the pro version installed and it shows all kind of weird signs / punctuation and it doesn't translate all the sentences anymore. Any idea what the problem can be?

The address of my website is: http://www.ridemymtb.com/

Thnx in advance.

Anne van Leeuwen

[Edvard]

Hi,

For some reason your server replies with

Content-Type text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

header forcing it to use iso-8859-1 charset instead of utf-8.

Please contact your hosting provider and ask how can you force to use utf-8 or make it not force charset. Ex.

Content-Type text/html;

[dadionysos]

Thank you for you quick answer.

The charset is working now. No weird punctuations anymore. There is only a problem that some sentences are in Dutch when you have chosen German for example. Do I have to clean the cache or something?

Greets,

Anne

[Edvard]

That should be solved over time. If you don't want to wait you can add force_translation=1 in the end of the URL and it will make the translation quickly. Ex. http://www.ridemymtb.com/de/?force_translation=1

[dadionysos]

Hoi Edvard,

How long is it goning to take normally? English seems to work fine, but I see at the top of the page sometimes the next error message: Cannot translate:

Any idea?

Thanks for the good help!

[Edvard]

Hi,

I've checked the debug to find out the cause for that error and I think I know what it is. It seems that your template index.php file or some other file included into it uses a wrong encoding and there is an invisible "Â " character in there (non-breaking space or encoded "%C2%A0"). If you can give me temporary FTP access, I can try to find that file and fix the issue with it, so it will not pause the translation process.

[Edvard]

It should be OK now, please check.

[dadionysos]

I am stil having problems. English seems to work fine. But when you try
http://www.ridemymtb.com/fr/?force_translation=1 or http://www.ridemymtb.com/de/?force_translation=1 he is still showing the error message.

[Edvard]

Now for sure it should be OK.

[dadionysos]

The error messages are gone. The translation contains still some dutch sentences. But it takes some time you said earlier. I have to wait I quess.

Thank you for the good support.

[Edvard]

Yes, it depends how frequently search engines index your site. It can take a week or two to translate everything and index all the languages.