i tried to create a custom alphabet with english and greek character..in the frontend it works ..in the backend some of the greek letters are not saved in the databsec they stay blank..is there a solution for this? it has to do with the letter positions not the characters i mean the greek letter for l is the 40th in the line and no matter what i put even an english letter inside the commas it does not work in the backend this is hapenning and with other letters so i must move them by leaving a space with ,, is it possible to fix that? and still can not find a solution for searching songs and albuns in component.

it is very important that the "inside" array is well constructed and that it has NUMBERS after the Z character, and that it has the same length that the "displayed" characteres. do you know what I mean?¿

So i should create in that way?
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internal['custom'] = array("Α","Β","Γ","Δ","Ε","Ζ","Η","Θ","Ι","Κ","Λ","L","Μ","Ν","Ξ","Ο","Π","Ρ","
Σ","Τ","Υ","Φ","Χ","Ψ","Ω","A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","
N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z","1");

external['custom'] = array("Α","Β","Γ","Δ","Ε","Ζ","Η","Θ","Ι","Κ","
Λ","L","Μ","Ν","Ξ","Ο","Π","Ρ","Σ","Τ","Υ","Φ","Χ","Ψ","Ω","A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J",
"K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z","#");

i tried in the backend it does not save the characters..of greek at all if
the grekk alphabet is first. If i addea after it can to save some of the character
to the database.

And in the backend i can search in greek but not in the frontend.

no, not at all. that is what I was saying before. please take a look at the ARABIC letterbar as an example.
you CANNOT use greek characters in the internal array. ONLY A-Z and then numbers as I said before!

so it should be

array("A","B", 2, 3... etc


use NUMBERS in the positions of greek characters.

ok numbers in the internal after z and letters in the external ok i will try it

It worked ! thank you..now i have only the greek issue in search in the component artist-album

what issue?

i can not search in greek artists or albums .. i bought your latest version but i had issues with it i got error 500 iam in windows enviroment with plesk and php hosted in a virtual server in fasthost.co.uk
so i search in the net and found an older version of 2.2.0 and it works but the search in the frontpage of the component does not search greek characters only english and numbers and this is what i am using now
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i can stay with 2.2.0 i dont want any other updates i am pleased with it
i tried to update it to 2.2.3 with the updates but i still get errors and i dont have time to resolve the issues with it it zust does not search in greek i saw that this issue was again in russian is there a fix to it?

are the greek words you are looking for in the KEYWORDS field of the album?

first in the artist or album i can not add keywords in greek after sevae the filed is still blank.
In the album and in the artist i have added meta keyword and description with the name of the artist it is inserted ok.
But the search still gives noresults on album song /search inside the component from the frontpage. With english everything works fine.

you are right, there's a restriction on this.
to remove it:
open /administrator/com_muscol/tables/album.php

on line 146 you see this:

$return = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($keywords);

replace it for:

$return = $keywords;

and you'll be able to add greek characters in album keywords.

ok i did it to the artist too in the backend all works fine now


but in the front i still get no results.
is this restriction somewere in the site component too? in the search code?

http://www.noizy.gr/index.php?searchword=%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1&format_id=&genre_id=&type_id=&tag_id=&option=com_muscol&search=albums&view=search&Itemid=&orderby=date_desc&limit=20&limitstart=0

with english albums it works

example i try to search this album http://www.noizy.gr/index.php?option=com_muscol&view=artists&letter=10 with the artist name that it is in the keywords "Κατερίνα Πολέμη" but i get not results

Is there any way to fix the fronpage search in the component to search the greek keywords? I seems tha it ignores them.

yes. in file /components/com_muscol/models/search.php line 239 replace this:

$keywords = utf8_decode(trim($this->get_keywords($keywords)));

for this:

$keywords = trim($this->get_keywords($keywords));