Following a migration, character encoding issue

[Bristow 0]

Hello everyone,

Following the migration of my server to Debian Bullseye and Fog 1.5.10.1734, I have noticed problems with characters that contain accents.
Is this a bug in this version, or have I forgotten something?

Thanks!

Example :

[Bristow 0]

@Tom-Elliott

Great news!

I updated my server to Debian Bookworm, restarted the Fog installation, and the accent problem disappeared. Awesome!

Thanks for your help and happy new year 2026, all the best for the FOG project!

[Tom Elliott]

@Bristow-0 I’m pretty sure its your systems fonts don’t have a way to represent those particular characters. The encoding displays correctly on my machine looking in a terminal.

I’m assuming this worked, then you did an update and it stopped working? I might look at what fonts recently got updated or removed?

[Bristow 0]

@Tom-Elliott

Indeed, it worked before the migration.

Accented characters work on the terminal connected to my server.

However, it is strange that it displays the ç and the spanish ñ correctly on the home page. It seems that only the é and è are not working…

Look :

[Bristow 0]

Maybe this is my translation file submitted a few years ago?

https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/pull/431

[Tom Elliott]

@Bristow-0 I’m not able to replicate the issue:

[Bristow 0]

Arghh

I tried to apply this command without any conclusive results:

msgfmt -o /var/www/html/fog/management/languages/fr_FR.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo /var/www/html/fog/management/languages/fr_FR.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

I did see the accents once or twice (after msgfmt command), but they disappeared after two clicks or connecting to Fog. Very strange…

[Tom Elliott]

@Bristow-0 I don’t know what OS you’re running:

php-gettext or php-php-gettext is the module you’ll need installed (pretty sure it already is but maybe there’s some unexpected collision occurring?)

If you’re on debian, you my need to also reconfigure the fr_FR.UTF-8 sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales scroll down to the fr_FR.UTF-8 selector and ensure it’s selected.

Tab to Ok, on the next screen choose your default (or change it if you want) and click ok. It shoudl reconfigure the languages.

Other os’s the glibc/lanugage packs just need to be installed.

[Tom Elliott]

@Bristow-0 Just cause I’m a dweeb:

You can simplify this command for reformatting with:

msgfmt -o /var/www/html/fog/management/languages/fr_FR.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/messages.{m,p}o

Theoretically. I don’t think it’d cause issues, but explicit is known for sure.

[Bristow 0]

@Tom-Elliott

I’m on Debian Bullseye.

I can’t install php-gettext, and i installed php-php-gettext (not installed), restart php7.4 but no better.

[Bristow 0]

@Tom-Elliott

Great news!

I updated my server to Debian Bookworm, restarted the Fog installation, and the accent problem disappeared. Awesome!

Thanks for your help and happy new year 2026, all the best for the FOG project!