If you install the Norwegian sample data (specifically the sample patron categories) and go to the Patrons page, then click on the patron category dropdown to create a new patron, the Norwegian characters are displayed as black diamonds with a question mark in them. As far as I can tell, the sample data should be OK, and when they are displayed in Administration > Patron categories, they do look ok.
Created attachment 15987 [details] [review] Bug 9772 - Display Norwegian chars correctly in the patron category dropdown To reproduce: - Install Norwegian translation - Run through the web installer in Norwegian, and make sure you choose the optionl ("2-Valgfritt") patron_categories.sql data - Log in and visit the "Patrons" page - The dropdown should contain black diamonds with question marks instead of the Norwegian chars æøå To test - Apply the patch to the situation above - Check the dropdown again - æøå should be displayed - If you want to check with other interface languages than Norwegian, remember to re-install the nb-NO translation after the patch has been applied This feels slightly like curing the symptom instead of the disease, alternative patches are welcome!
Created attachment 16049 [details] [review] [SIGNED-OFF] Bug 9772 - Display Norwegian chars correctly in the patron category dropdown To reproduce: - Install Norwegian translation - Run through the web installer in Norwegian, and make sure you choose the optionl ("2-Valgfritt") patron_categories.sql data - Log in and visit the "Patrons" page - The dropdown should contain black diamonds with question marks instead of the Norwegian chars æøå To test - Apply the patch to the situation above - Check the dropdown again - æøå should be displayed - If you want to check with other interface languages than Norwegian, remember to re-install the nb-NO translation after the patch has been applied This feels slightly like curing the symptom instead of the disease, alternative patches are welcome! Signed-off-by: Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> I agree that this doesn't seem like a broad enough solution, but it doesn't do any harm to apply an incomplete fix as long as the underlying problem can be followed up on. Note that this problem isn't specific to Norwegian, but doesn't happen with all non-basic characters.
Created attachment 16490 [details] [review] [PASSED QA] Patch Attaching patch in "the traditional way" as git bz was unhappy with the non latin characters in the commit message.
This patch has been pushed to master.
Doesn't apply to 3.10.x please rebase and resubmit if you wish it to be in 3.10.x