[Typo3-dev] pi_getLL & UTF8 & locallang

[Ingo Schmitt]

Hi oliver,

> 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.

We have a complete pure UTF-8 server. So does mixed-mode mean, switching 
between encodings or does ist mean mixed languages?

> 
> workaround (this will save you workdays!)
> 
> define the locallang values in typo3script in the db...
> not nice but ok.

ill keep that in mind, if we don't find a solution.

It's quite funny, it is only one extension with this problem ..

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

Indeed. Come along to Duesseldorf, we'll have an "Altbier", or two, or 
three :-)

ingo



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