[TYPO3-dev] German umlauts in menus on PHP5

[Martin Kutschker]

Christian Lerrahn schrieb:
> 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.

TYPO3 uses GD to render text in images. It will convert text to UTF-8 
before calling the text drawing functions.

Did youo do more thatn a PHP upgrade? Maybe something of OS enviroment 
affects PHP/GD as well.

As a hack you could try and disable the utf-8 conversion in 
t3lib_stdgraphics.php

Masi