No comments in sidebar

[grimusm]

Using 9.7 and my site and stories are all in simplified chinese.

Comments have been added, but the sidebar comments is just showing the ... with the link. The comment (which is written in chinese) is not displayed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[grimusm]

Anyone can help?

[kbeeveer46]

Need a link to your site.

[longcountdown]

Same here but for Japanese. Comments show up on story page and even on the /comments page, but not in the sidebar latest comments box. Just leaves the "..." which links to the story.

My site is JapanSoc.com but only one recent comment has been in Japanese.

[longcountdown]

The problem is the ShortenText function in /sidebar_comments.php

// determine the amount of characters to show for each comment	
function ShortenText($text) {
	$chars = comments_length_sidebar;

  $text = $text." ";
  $text = substr($text,0,$chars);
  $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
  $text = $text."...";

  return $text;
  }		
	
?>

By commenting out the $text lines, the Japanese shows up in the sidebar, but the comments still need to be shortened. Any ideas?

[longcountdown]

Fixed it!

In the ShortenText function in /sidebar_comments.php, change:

$text = $text." ";
  $text = substr($text,0,$chars);
  $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
  $text = $text."...";

to:

$text = $text." ";
  $text = mb_substr($text,0,$chars);
  $text = mb_substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
  $text = $text."...";

The mb means multi-byte and works with UTF-8 (international) encoding.