Jitsi-meet: Room Name: Umlauts are not possible

Created on 18 Mar 2020 · 16Comments · Source: jitsi/jitsi-meet

Description

Room name does not correctly display "Umlauts"

Current behavior

When opening up a room named "äöü" (https://meet.jit.si/öüä) the display of the room name on the top is strippend/sanitized and not correctly shown

Expected Behavior

The room name should display the "Umlauts" during conference session on top of screen.

localization

Source

thalunil

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All 16 comments

We have some logic to try to “prettify” names, it does not seem to do the right thing in this case, thanks for the report!

saghul on 18 Mar 2020

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Hi, it seems the same for any accented character : éèêëàâùç... many languages are impacted.

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

I think this would be the case for any non-ascii character.

saghul on 23 Mar 2020

Sure, so what's the solution since any user will type something in his own language as a room name?

Alternatively, what is the way to display a warning message to inform that the room name must not contain any "non-ascii" char?

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

Any character is allowed in a room name, we are failing to render it correctly though.

saghul on 23 Mar 2020

Here is a fix: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5333

saghul on 23 Mar 2020

Not sure what you mean by "is allowed", but if you type something like été for the room name, you get a 404 error, as you cant see on this image https://ibb.co/zRyT1jX

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

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Works jusst fine on meet.jit.si. If you are using the Docker setup, we jave a bug in the nginx rules, but it'ss separate from this one. This is strictly a display issue. I see, however, how one can be confused for the other now...

saghul on 23 Mar 2020

Yep, that's what I can see for meet.jit.si. No, it's not a docker image, and apache2 is used, not nginx.

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

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jitsi-meet 1.0.4299-1 all WebRTC JavaScript video conferences
jitsi-meet-prosody 1.0.3900-1 all Prosody configuration for Jitsi Meet
jitsi-meet-turnserver 1.0.3900-1 all Configures coturn to be used with Jitsi Meet
jitsi-meet-web 1.0.3900-1 all WebRTC JavaScript video conferences
jitsi-meet-web-config 1.0.3900-1 all Configuration for web serving of Jitsi Meet
jitsi-videobridge 1132-1 amd64 WebRTC compatible Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU)

jicofo 1.0-534-1 all JItsi Meet COnference FOcus

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

Then it looks like we have the same bug in both the nginx and apache2 configs. Can you please open a new issue about Apache 2? We are already tracking our Nginx default. Thanks!

saghul on 23 Mar 2020

Will it be a copy of #5333? Or which issue regarding nginx?

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

No, the fix is needed in the apache 2 config. The fix in #5333 is about displaying the room name.. If you now enter in https://meet.jit.si/saúl123 the room name will be displayed as "Saul 123" (note the lack of the accent).

saghul on 23 Mar 2020

OK, @saghul : issue #5334

manu-p on 23 Mar 2020

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This seems to be fixed now (by a46fd60).