html entities use instead of clean utf8 characters

[Harry]

Hi
I find that all the text from all the languishes other that en is appear as "html entities codes".
This is something VERY bad for the search engines, and the amount of the characters it is used even in the database or in the html page (much more time to load).

I used the prestashop in greek (gr).
All the Greek characters is in “html entity codes” format like this:

Χάρη Ζαμπετούλας

If the prestashop is working in utf-8 encoding, that means that all the characters must be correct in the source code of the page.
Now as it is, the translation from “html entity codes” to characters is made by the browser.

So the problem comes from the way that the prestashop developers is handle the utf-8 characters other that latin.

I find out that in the php code the programmers/developers is made a conversion from utf-8 to “html entity codes”
This is wrong!!
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE DEVELOPERS HAVE TO GIVE VERY MUCH ATTENTION.
Please some one to give me here a reason for that.
Please, give as some more information about it, to find a solution.

thank you
Harry Zampetoulas

[Patric]

Hi,

If this problem still exists on the SVN version, please post a report (in English only) into our bug tracker tool :
http://www.prestashop.com/bug_tracker/

If you have problems to post in English , please ask for help into the all new Greek forum :
http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewforum/124/

Thanks a lot!

[qxqx]

Any update on this issue, how to prevent/solve this?
using PrestaShop v.1.4.0.17 and have the same for problem as described above for greek.
Thanks in advance for any info!

[gklis]

Hello!

 

I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm using the latest prestashop 1.4.4. and when i view the source of a web page in prestashop shop every greek character is in html entity.

 

Is there any way to change it and use utf-8 characters instead of html entities?

 

Thank you in advance.