Serendipity Forums

I'm working on a new blog and so far everything is working as expected, except one strange thing: I can't create a new category if its name contains unicode characters (I'm interested only in the following ones: ă, ț, ș, Ă, Ț, Ș). If one of these are in the category name, the following error message appears: "403 Forbiddden - Access to this resource on the server is denied!" Every text entry in the database has collation set to "utf8_unicode_ci", and any other accepts all possible characters. Can't figure it out why just "category_name" behaves like this...
So far I managed to find a workaround: creating a new category without unicode characters and then editing the corresponding "category_name" from "seredipity_category" table using phpMyAdmin. It works (see category "Prăjituri" here: http://manupropria.ro/), but it would be too much trouble for my client. Is there a simpler way to add a category with unicode characters in its name?

Please add them as and array vars to you lang files in /lang/* and lang/utf-8/*. See examples here: https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/blob ... nc.php#L17 and https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/blob ... nc.php#L17

This should do. See http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20525

Edit: No sorry, the category name should do with those characters in the backend - in frontend they would just be /<category-id>-unknown, if called by category, eg "/categories/4-unknown" in the URL (and thats what we are talking about). But maybe the above helps here ..?

(I strongly assume this is another issue of your LiteSpeed Server...)

I contacted the hosting company about this issue and they deactivated a server-side mod_security filter.
Now I can insert any character I like in the Category name field. Problem solved!

BTW, that strange behaviour didn't affect just the unicode characters, in the New Category form I could use just the following characters: "a...z", "A..Z", "0...9" and "_". Any other character triggered that error message.