Get fields values in the view
You should use Entity module. in this module no matter what the language of the website is you can use entity_metadata_wrapper command to get the fields value. here is an example of my project where field_article_writer and title are fields of article content type:

function MYTHEME_preprocess_node(&amp;$variables){
switch ($variables['node']-&gt;type){
    case 'article':
        $suggest = "page__node__article";
        $variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = $suggest;
        $wrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('node',$variables['node']);
        $variables['title']= $wrapper-&gt;title-&gt;value();
        $variables['writer']= $wrapper-&gt;field_article_writer-&gt;value();
        break;
    }
} 


Now in page--node--article.tpl.php, $title and $writer hold their correspondent value.