Captive Portal custom page non-english character problem

bassc

Hello friends. I've just started to use new 2.3 CE version of pfsense. I have my own custom login and error html pages of captive portal. After i've started to use new 2.3 version the non-english characters as shown as question mark. Before 2.3 versions i had not a problem like this. The page was clear as i did prapare. Now i am using same html files at 2.3 version's captive portal but as i said all non-english characters have problem. Do you know why? Thx and good work all.

Gertjan

Hi,

Yes, this is known.
It's quit easy to understand what happens.

You do understand that 'html' files are plain text files.
Every 'a' will be shown as an 'a', a 'b' a 'b' etc.
But, things get complicated when you want to show a é, a è or even a æ or better. These 'special' (non US) letters are represented as bits in bytes, but for every system, they are (could be) different.
PC (= read "Windows") system use other character sets as Linux system, which could be different to FreeBSD systems, and iMAC uses yet other "code page" set

Solution : use a good editor like UltraEdit or Notepad++ which shows you the current 'code' (character set) and permits you to convert to another character set. Convert to the one that pfSense uses, and you're done.

bassc

Hi again. Yes i know the charset. . 8859-9 is for turkish language. When i try to open index.html file from my hard drive before upload to captive portal the Turkish characters look normal. But when i upload same file to captive portal and and try to view from the captive portal the characters not look normal. Also i tired utf8 and windows 1254 charset. All the same. I think problem does not become from html file or charset code at html file. I think problem becomes from free bsd or pfsense. The OS does not recognize 8859-9 iso format or something like that. I do not know what has been changed at 2.3 version about this. Coz as i said at 2.2 version was ok with that Turkish characters. So what do you suggest now my friend? Thx and good work.

Gertjan

@bassc:

….So what do you suggest now my friend? Thx and good work.

pfSene is translated in two other languages, one of them is … Turkish.
Check out how all the other html pages are generated and you have the solution ;)