[TYPO3] sp_directory and utf-8 doesn't work correctly

[Julo Ferianc]

Hi Tomas,

as your original post is almost 10 months old, this would probably be 
too late an answer for you. Nevertheless as I faced the same problem and 
eventually found the solution, I'm posting it here for other users 
reference.

The problem of sp_directory and accented characters lies within usage of 
htmlentities() function in 
ext\sp_directory\pi1\class.tx_spdirectory_pi1.php file. Try to remove 
the function from rendering portions of code and voila: all chars in all 
encodings are shown correctly. This solution (removing htmlentities) has 
some other implications though, consider before applying.

Note, sp_directory has been dropped from TER allegedly for some obscure 
security reason, the future of this enormously useful extension is unclear.

Julo

On 22.3.2006 22:19, Tomas Broeker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anybody know why with sp_directory the addresses from tt_address 
> are not display correctly? Special codes like "ä, ö, ü, etc." are 
> display weirdly.
> 
> Strange is that everything is displayed correctly in the Backend. There 
> are no problems with special chars.
> 
> When I look into the tt_address table the display of the characters is 
> wrong. Do I change it manually (using phpmyadmin) the char is displayed 
> correctly in the FE but wrong in the BE.
> 
> Typo3 4.0rc1 and MySQL are both using utf-8.
> I am using tt_address 1.0.4 and sp_directory 0.2.10.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas