[SOLVED] Spanish Accent Coding in "Contact Us" .tpl file

[JDub1337]

Hey everyone, I am having a bit of an issue that I am trying to sort out. On our "Contact Us" section of the website we wanted to input a small bit in Spanish for our Spanish speaking customers. I have hard coded the Spanish accent codes in the past using the entity codes for the characters (ie: &oacute and &ntilde). For some reason when I am trying to code it in the "contact-form.tpl" it is either showing up wrong or not at all. I have made sure that the file itself states Unicode UTF-8. Here is the code I am working with:

 

Original attempt:

 

<p class="bold">Para español, marque la extensión # 233</p>

 

Adjusting the code:

 

<p lang="es" xml:lang="es">Para español, marque la extensión # 233</p>

 

I have imported the Spanish localization pack in the back office, as well as enabled Spanish under the Languages tab with success. I am just having a difficult time getting the code to show and display properly. It has been a good long while since I have done any language switching code so I am very rusty (probably missed something super simple). I should also point out that when I test the code it seems to be working, just is not displaying properly. Thanks in advance,

 

J Dub

Edited February 5, 2014 by JDub1337 (see edit history)

[JDub1337]

Hey everyone, turns out I figured it out after all. I needed to adjust the code a bit more and got it to work and show up properly. Hope this helps anyone in the future looking to solve the same thing. Thanks again for such an excellent forum!

 

J Dub

[El Patron]

I would have thought this much easier to do and best practice by adding text in .tpl files:

 

{l s='your text field'}

 

the way you are doing it will not work for mufti-lingual shop, well it will just in the wrong language.

[JDub1337]

I would have thought this much easier to do and best practice by adding text in .tpl files:

 

{l s='your text field'}

 

the way you are doing it will not work for mufti-lingual shop, well it will just in the wrong language.

 

Hey El Patron, when I was using the ls command script I kept getting syntax errors kicked back. Only way I could get it to work was without it. Not sure how else to fix it to be honest. This is what would kick back after doing what you had suggested:

 

'Para espa�ol, marque la extensi�n # 233'

 

Or it would just be blank, with nothing there at all

 

Our shop is only in one language with two bits of Spanish in separate places on the site. Any suggestions would be a great help! Thanks,

 

J Dub

Edited February 5, 2014 by JDub1337 (see edit history)

[El Patron]

I would replace hard coded spanish text with {l s='some text in english'}

 

then from the back office translations modify this english text with spanish.

 

This also allows you to modify the text as you please later and  may circumvent the issue you are having now.

[JDub1337]

I would replace hard coded spanish text with {l s='some text in english'}

 

then from the back office translations modify this english text with spanish.

 

This also allows you to modify the text as you please later and  may circumvent the issue you are having now.

 

Wow! I had absolutely NO idea that was possible. I am pretty sure you just saved me a ton of time! Thanks a million times over El Patron!

 

J Dub

[El Patron]

Wow! I had absolutely NO idea that was possible. I am pretty sure you just saved me a ton of time! Thanks a million times over El Patron!

 

J Dub

 

Please let us know if this works better for you.

[JDub1337]

Please let us know if this works better for you.

 

El Patron, that did the trick. I guess I am stuck in the old way of hard coding things haha. It works perfectly, thank you so much!

 

J Dub