Change name of the pictures in arabic

OpenEMR Development
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ijaraho wrote on Tuesday, August 06, 2013:

hi,
I have patients with their pictures in Arabic langauge, but when I download the folder “documents” to my computer, then upload it again to its location, openemr program change the name of my picture automatically (for example change from: “عناد الععلييوي.1” to: #U0639#U0646#U0627#U062f #U0627#U0644#U0639#U0644#U064a#U0648#U064a.1), so I can’t access to patients’s pictures until I change names of the pictures to its original names.
any solution to the problem because I have much patients (more of 700 patients)

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yehster wrote on Tuesday, August 06, 2013:

You are going to need to track down where the character set is getting confused. It sounds like it’s part of your “download” and “upload” process, and that’s really more of an operating systems issue than something specific to OpenEMR. Something to try might be to create an archive of the documents directory (like a zip or a tar file) and transferring that or trying a different transfer protocol.

More information about your transfer process and the operating systems involved might be helpful in identifying your issue. Is the server a different OS than the computer you are downloading to?

Honestly, though your problem isn’t in an area I have much experience with, so that’s about all the help I can provide.

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ijaraho wrote on Tuesday, August 06, 2013:

hi,
OS on my PC is windows 7.
you see, that when I upload any Arabic picture name, its name appear like this “______________________________.1.jpg”, and it don’t display, so I need to change its name manauly, then its name go like this “#U0627#U0644#U0639#U0644#U064a#U0648#U064a.1” in File Manager

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yehster wrote on Tuesday, August 06, 2013:

What OS is the server you are downloading the files from?

Suggest that you play with the region and language settings on the windows control panel, but like I said, this is really more of a Windows issue rather than an OpenEMR issue, suggest you look to other resources.

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bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, August 07, 2013:

Hi,

The documents module breaks on non-latin1 characters (ie. it converts them to _). See here for info on this bug. Guessing shouldn’t be too tough of a fix:
http://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202504/thread/9ee83a2a

Any takers?

-brady
OpenEMR

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fsgl wrote on Wednesday, August 07, 2013:

Notepad has an option for encoding besides ANSI. There should be a straigtforward way to do the same for titles of files.

If Issam’s OS is in Arabic and OpenEMR is also in Arabic, does the break occur because the later is only 58% translated?

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ijaraho wrote on Friday, August 09, 2013:

sorry for late, because I was in ayad vacation,
My computer OS is English Windows 7, My OPENEMR hosting OS is Linux, OPENEMR interface is English but the data is in Arabic, and it don’t give an option of encoding for save as

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fsgl wrote on Friday, August 09, 2013:

This YouTube tutorial shows how to display in Arabic for Windows.

Linux in Arabic Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

The Dev. Demo is available in Arabic, but not completely translated.

Experiment on the Dev. Demo and see if you can overcome the break that Brady wrote about.

Arabic will be available in 4.1.2, which will be released soon.

If you are able to fix the bug or devise a work-around, please post.

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ijaraho wrote on Friday, August 09, 2013:

thank you brady, thanks for all,
after I updated to the version 4.1.1 (14), the problem of downloading and saving the documents folder in strange character is not solve(when saving it in my PC is right but when uploading again to online openemr it become strange name), and the problem of converting the name of the picture to long line is still