problem with cyrillic names

Hi!
I have last moodle (3.1.3) - joomla (3.6.4) - joomdle (1.0. versions.
Then I created user (from joomla admin) in english all worked fine.
But then I try to create user (from joomla admin or something else) with cyrillic name (NOT username or login), Дмитрий for example, joomdle create moodle user with all empty poles (empty name, empty surname, empty email (!), except login - login filled by user login).

Thanks for the bug report. I tested and can confirm the problem.
I will investigate the issue to try to find a fix for it, and get back to you.

Can you tell us which PHP version are you running?
It seems the problem may be related to that...I tested in 5.27 and 7.0.8 and it did not work.
I tested on 5.5.9 and it works fine.

PHP Version 5.6.28-1

we changed php on 5.5.38-4 and it's still not working
maybe there's no relation with php version? )

Thanks for the info. Can you try a lower version? 5.5.38-4 is higher thatn 5.5.9.

I have some notice in administrator/index.php?option=com_joomdle&view=users
Maybe it will help.
Notice: Undefined index: in /.../administrator/components/com_joomdle/helpers/content.php on line 576
Notice: Undefined index: in /.../administrator/components/com_joomdle/helpers/content.php on line 585

I think problem is with PHP version.

I have downloaded simple xmlrpc client and server at:
code.runnable.com/UnEjkT04_CBwAAB4/how-t...mlrpc-client-for-php

And modified them to use Дмитрий as name.
- Scripts don't work in PHP 7 or 5.6.27. When I pass Дмитрий as an argument, it fails with:
Array ( [faultString] => parse error. not well formed. error occurred at line 7, column 11, byte index 131 [faultCode] => -32700 )

- Scripts work correctly in PHP 5.5.9

It seems problem is the same with cyrilic and farsi chars, but not with spanish, like Ñ.

I found this problem in runet.
Someone told that we need manual encode in utf-8
xmlrpc_encode_request("say_hello", array('John'));
so it seems, that it need to be like:
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request("say_hello", array('John'), array('encoding'=>'UTF-8','escaping'=>'markup'));
and you need to add utf8 somewhere in xmlrpc_decode

Can you try this solution?

Hi.

Thank you very much for the info. I have tested, and indeed, it seems to solve the problem.
I needed to add the code to client and server to make it work.

So, we would need to add the changes to Joomdle, although for that I will need to do good testing. It is a very important change, as it would modify how web services are handled.
I have tested doing these changes in Joomdle, and it seems to be working fine.

If you want to make the changes now to start testing, here they are:

File administrator/components/com_joomdle/helpers/content.php
Function: get_request
You need to add 'escaping'=>'markup' to all xmlrpc_encode_request calls. For example:
We had: So now it would be:
File: components/com_joomdle/controllers/ws.xmlrpc.php
Function: server
At the end, change: By:

File: moodle/auth/joomdle/auth.php
Function: call_method_fgc and call_method_curl
At the start, change: By:
I also checked Moodle XMLRPC server code, and found that in fact 'escaping'=>'markup' was added some time ago after I submitted a different problem with XMLRPC and latin chars on Moodle 3.1, Weird when you google something and find that you wrote the first result

Please test the changes and let me know how they work for you. I will do some good testing in the next days too, to make sure this does not cause any problems.