[Typo3] RE: UTF-8 Output not working

[Mike Meir]

Hi

Hi all,

I have a 3.7.0 site set to use utf-8 in the backend.

Default language is set to the default

L1 is set to the default

(though both have been set to en with no differennce)

Text entered into the RTE displays fine in the RTE if I use Unicode Chars like ££££, saves fine and retrieves fine (looks like ££££).

The text source in the rtf is 

<P><FONT size=6>£££££</FONT></P>

In the front end, header encoding is set to utf-8:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

but the text appears as 

££££

and the html is

<p class="bodytext"><font size="6">&Acirc;&pound;&Acirc;&pound;&Acirc;&pound;&Acirc;&pound;&Acirc;&pound;</font></p>

I believe this is what happens if utf-8 is not recognised as utf-8 but just interpreted "as is". 

On another site, where backend is not set to utf-8, Unicode text (actually for Urdu, but that shouldn't matter) entered in RTE works absolutely fine, being output as a series of &#number characters which display correctly.

Either I have managed to configure something wrong on the first site (which is positively supposed to be multilingual), or something is badly broken. I can't find anything which appears to be wrong. The RTE is extensively configured in the page TSConfig, and the same thing happens if I remove all configuration and rely on the default, so that can't be the problem.

If anyone has any idea what might fix the problem, I'll be eternally grateful ...

Mike Meir
Director, Gate Seven.