localization and UTF-8 problem | why not JScalendar option?

In the recent weeks i stumbled about a problem with forms and the calendar popup (datepicker) in serveral joomla form components.

joomla and other form components use two different JS scripts.
IMHO a real problem. The simple \"calendar\" is only avail in (one) english version, and does not handle any special characters (i tried serveral methods with different codings, all resulted in \"garbage\" or a script error...

Thanks for your answer Alex, I hope we will find a good solution that is useful for other people as well. Thus I will try to explain briefly what I am looking for:

I am using an extension to Joomla that provides a calendar (JCal Pro) where we store brief descriptions of events and training courses. Every one of these events or courses has also a link that leads to a registration form (built of course with forme).

Besides name, address etc, the registration form also presents some alternatives...

Hi,

First of all, thank you for the great component and a very nice looking and supportive website (good look is surprisingly rare among developers)

I have a question, how to add a form to a particular component's html.php so it appears on every page automatically without using a mambot?

For example Hot Property... there is a standard contact form which is not possible to enhance with calendars or anything else. It looks like this

<div id=\"hp_emailform_con\">
<?php...

I had a similar issue with the calendar since we use Swedish. Here are some hints:

1) There are two DIFFERENT calendar packages that have to be translated on the basic Joomla 1.012. The first is provided for backward compatibility purposes. Its easy to translate both since they are small files. Start by looking for:
1a) /includes/js/calendar/lang/calendar-en.js
1b) /includes/js/jscalendar-1.0/lang/calendar-es.js
Create two new language files called for instance calendar-pt.js
Remember to...

Yes, i posted that issue of the main forums also, but no one gave me an answer yet...

Hello to all,

only small hint.
Opera/jsCalander problem, I think, on Joomla side.
I find this bug few days ago.
Simply test. Open any content, go to Publishing tab end test it to change, for example Override Created Date in Opera.
The calendar show, but you can't change date with mouse click.
Very interesant - you can change by arrow keys and confirm with Enter!

Only FYI, Alex.

Tibor

rsd wrote:
Thanks for narrowing problem's description

ok, thanks.
opera version is 9.20

Oh, damn, i thought i tested it, but the same issue is present in Opera 9.20. The calendar shows, but you cannot choose a date. I will study if this is a Forme error or a global Joomla issue, since the calendar is a Joomla core part.

Have tried with 9.01 on Linux and I can confirm that the problem exists.

The behaviour is that the calendar shows, but does not take action when a day is clicked.

It is interesting to see that if I set opera to Mask as Internet Explorer or to Mask as Mozilla, the calendar works fine.

So, something in the code (javascript probably) acts different in the way the browser identifies itself.

if this is code in Javascript, the \"right way (tm)\" is to try to catch exceptions to see what...

Can you tell me what opera version you have? I tested it on Opera 9.20 and it works.

The calendar comes with the joomla package and from what i noticed it by default includes en language. Try search for joomla prtuguese calendar see if you find something on the web. Let me know please.

Cheers.
I just can see the calendar in english, and it is so hard for some visitors.
Can i change the language? (Portuguese).
Im not coder :/... but id like to try make it.

Thanks for this great component!

I noticed that I will have to dig deeper to find a solution. The Calendar is a core function for Joomla, actually a javascript either at /includes/js/jscalendar-1.0/ or /includes/js/calendar/. I see that only the english language files are present.

I did not have time yet to google it nor look at the code but there must be a way to do it and lets hope that someone else did it before.

By the way:
Do you use week numbers in the Netherlands?
Is Monday the first day of the week?

These are the...

I have a correct Joomla installation in Swedish (works with other packages) but my forme calendar appears in English. This is one of the issues that I have to solve for obtaining a complete Swedish translation/localization of forme.

I would be thankful for a solution or hints on how to solve it.