[Typo3] translation in extension's locallang utf-8

[Steven Bagshaw]

Hi,

I'll be interested to read the proper answer, but because I was in a hurry
and didn't have many to do, I just pasted my text into a content element,
reloaded the page in the FE, viewed the source and copied and paste what the
view source was showing. I ended up pasting into the locallang the text with
the crazy characters and it worked OK in the end. This was for French and
Spanish, not Chinese however.

Might be a workaround in case no one answers your question with a proper
answer!

Steve

"Timothy Ding" <tding at 1688.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.5709.1129843046.10463.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
> Dear List,
>
> I am seeking guidance for steps to translate language in extension's
> $LOCAL_LANG array value
>
> - website charset is set to utf-8
> - website has only one language which is in chinese
> - in localconf.php: $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = "utf-8";
>
> Content Element in chinese displays correctly but I see translation
> problem when using locallang's values from the extensions.
>
> Since there's only one language, i changed fields for the default
> values to chinese in utf-8 but browser output resulted with junk
> characters. I also tried changing extension's locallang.php into
> unicode which make thing worst. I am sure i did something wrong but
> what, can someone shed some light?
>
> $LOCAL_LANG = Array (
>      'default' => Array (
>          'username' => 'chinese in utf-8:',
>          'missing_username' => 'chinese in utf-8!',
>          'password' => 'chinese in utf-8', ....
>
> the extension i am using is "sr_feuser_register" & "newloginbox"
> beta website : http://218.206.71.235:81/testsite/index.php?id=19
>
> many many thanks in advance,
> TimDing