[TYPO3-dev] German umlauts in menus on PHP5

[Christian Lerrahn]

Hi,
this is not exactly a dev thing but I've tried the German forum before
and got no replies and one might need some deeper understanding of Typo3
to answer that question.
I run Typo3 on a Gentoo Linux server. Gentoo streamlined the php packages
recently so that php-cli and mod_php have become one package. However,
this package is only vailable as PHP5. As Typo3 has been supposed to run
on PHP5 for long time now, I decided to upgrade but then run into the
following problem.
As the sites on that Typo3 installation are in German, some of the page
titles contain German umlauts (ä,ö,ü). This was never a problem with
PHP4. However, in PHP5 when you generate a GMENU with those site titles,
the umlauts will not be displayed properly. You either get an empty space
or strange placeholders. It looks like as if UTF-8 was provided where
ISO8859-15 is expected. My suspicion is that this has to do with the fact
that in PHP5 you cannot compile in both mysql and recode support.
However, this is a PHP upstream thing as according to php.net's bug
tracker compiling both of them in will crash PHP. Still not too many
people sem to have had that problem because I couldn't find much on this
on the web (and no solutions at all :( ). Any hints where the problem
arises? Is it an ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick issue?

Thanks in advance for any try to help! :)

Cheers,
Christian

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