[TYPO3-dev] German umlauts in menus on PHP5

[Christian Lerrahn]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:55:45 +1000
Christian Lerrahn <typo3 at penpal4u.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:36:59 +0200
> Martin Kutschker <martin.kutschker-n0spam at no5pam-blackbox.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hm, I didn't change anything else I think but I can't really recall.
> However, even if I changed anything else I didn't change it back when I
> downgraded back to PHP4. Does Typo3 ever use the DefaultCharset of Apache
> in any way? Because this is usually set with Apache default installs but
> unset on my Apache install (for another vhost). That's the only thing I
> could think of right now which is special about my system.

I've now tried to reproduce the problem on a test system. The test system
doesn't run exactly the same versions of all software but gd and php are
at the same version at least. However, I could not reproduce the error.
I'll probably have to play around with the system that's having problems
and see what helps.

Cheers,
Christian

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