MODX, MIGX and Polylang Cyrillic?

[modx-developer]

Good afternoon!

The problem is that sometimes migx or modx encodes the input text in the fields, but there are fields (randomly) where it does not want to encode and the database writes Cyrillic.

This is what it writes to the database:

[{“MIGX_id”:“1”,“title”:“Гидропилинг Glow Solution”,“description”:“”,“name”:“”,“price”:“”},{“MIGX_id”:“2” },{“time”: “60 min”, “title”:“”, “description”:“”, “name”: “Face + Neck Area”, “price”: “2,500”},{“MIGX_id”: “3”, “time”: “30 min”, “title”:“”, “description”:“”, “name”: “Decollete Area”, “price”: “1,500”},{“MIGX_id” : “4”, “time”: “90 min”, “title”:“”“, ‘description’:”", ‘name’: ‘Face + Neck + Decollete Area’, ‘price’: ‘3,500’} , {“MIGX_id”: “5”, “time”: “30 min”, “title”:“”, “description”:“”, “name”: “Outer palm area”, “price”: “1,000”}]

and it should be like this (as an example):

[{“MIGX_id”: “1”, “title”: “RF -\u043b\u0438\u0444\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0433 Morpheus 8”, “description”: “”,“name”:“”,“price”:“”},{“MIGX_id”:“2”,“time”:“60 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”: “\u0417\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430”,“price”:“15 000”},{“MIGX_id”:“3”,“time”: “60 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”:“\u0417\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u0448\u0435\u0438”,“price”: “12 000”},{“MIGX_id”:“4”,“time”:“90 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”:“\u0417\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430 + \u0448\u0435\u044f”,“price”:“20 000”},{“MIGX_id”: “5”,“time”:“60 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”:“\u0417\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u0434\u0435\u043a\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0435”,“price”:“10 000”},{“MIGX_id”: “6”,“time”:“120 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”: “\u0417\u043e\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430 + \u0448\u0435\u044f + \u0434\u0435\u043a\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0435”, “price”: “27 000”},{“MIGX_id”:“7”,“time”:“45 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”:“\u0417\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0437”,“price”:“8 000”},{“MIGX_id”:“8”,“time”: “60 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”:“\u041e\u0434\u043d\u0430 \u0437\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435”,“price”:“20 000”},{“MIGX_id”:“9”,“time”: “60 \u043c\u0438\u043d”,“title”:“”,“description”:“”,“name”: “\u041f\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0448\u043b\u0438\u0444\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430”,“price”:“14 000”}]

This kind of issue causes problems with polylang translator to other languages and it's not normal (out of the box it wasn't like this)

I've been observing this for a long time on different sites.

php 7.4
modx 2.8.6-pl
migx - 3.0.2-beta1
mysql - utf8_general_ci
modx_site_tmplvar_contentvalues - utf8_general_ci

https://qna.habr.com/q/1344376

the branch with answers on another resource *can be viewed through a translator

[halftrainedharry]

mysql - utf8_general_ci
modx_site_tmplvar_contentvalues - utf8_general_ci

Try using a different charset in your database. One with "utf8mb4".
"utf8" only uses 3 bytes and is not a real UTF-8 charset.

[modx-developer]

mysql - utf8_general_ci
modx_site_tmplvar_contentvalues - utf8_general_ci

Try using a different charset in your database. One with "utf8mb4". "utf8" only uses 3 bytes and is not a real UTF-8 charset.

for all tables in the database or just for the database?

[halftrainedharry]

Charsets in MySQL are somewhat convoluted. I believe every text column can have its own charset and changing the overall charsets of the database won't change the already existing columns.
For a MIGX-TV value, the relevant column is the column value of the database table modx_site_tmplvar_contentvalues.

Maybe try setting up a completely new MODX test installation with "utf8mb4" for everything, just to see if this resolves your issue (before tinkering with an existing database).