Hello Everyone,
If you faced a character problem in Category Titles in Blog Site Template for different language , may be this article helps you. In my envoriment i am using Turkish Language Pack (1055) .
the repro is not tested on other languages but it should be occurs for other languages which is contains specific characters .
I think this problem is a minor bug .You can reproduce it easily .
Here the Repro steps.
1) Install or find SPS2010 + SP1Dec2011 CU + TR(1055) language pack installed machine.
2) Create a site collection in Turkish
3) Create a “Web Günlüğü” (Blog Site Instance)
4) Add some categories that contains Turkish Characters.
5) Click one of this category titles in left navigation and open category page
I have created a category named : “Yağlı Boya Seçmeleri” You can see the problem bellowed screenshot.
The problem is when rendering left panel Categories web part (XSTLListView) not encode url of Link object correctly. I have tested with changing the link in browser’s address bar with correct encoding the titiles shown correctly on category page.
So There is a workaround for fixing this issue with using Sharepoint Designer 2010 .
1) Open defauılt aspx and (any needed page) in Sharepoint Designer.
2) Select one of the link in Categories XsltListViewWebpart
3) Click the HyperLinkOptions button.
4) Change the default value of
{$HttpVDir}/{$thisNode/../@resource.wss.lists_Folder}/{$thisNode/../@resource.wss.blogcategories_Folder}/Category.aspx?CategoryId={$thisNode/@ID}&Name={$CategoryTitle} as
{$HttpVDir}/{$thisNode/../@resource.wss.lists_Folder}/{$thisNode/../@resource.wss.blogcategories_Folder}/Category.aspx?CategoryId={$thisNode/@ID}&Name={$thisNode/@Title}
5) Repeat same options for all needed pages.
And Open and Check again your blog page :
(For who know Turkish the word of “Şeçme” have a little typo correct word is “Seçme” . Dont worry about it . i am not get all screenshot again for fixing this :)