[Typo3-dev] pi_getLL & UTF8 & locallang

[Olivier Dobberkau]

Ingo Schmitt wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> we are struggling with the conversion of UTF-8 characters during the
> pibase->pi_getLL method.
> Our locallang.php file is UTF-8 encoded and contains UTF-8 characters,
> after generating the content output we don’t have the UTF-8 encoded
> characters anymore, instead we have double encoded characters.
> We are running on 3.7.0.

hi ingo.

this is a known problem in mixed charset enviroments.
we had this problem with some asian languages lately.

workaround (this will save you workdays!)

define the locallang values in typo3script in the db...
not nice but ok.

olivier

ps: this is worth a case of beer :-)