[TYPO3] Broken characters in select boxes

[Tomas Mrozek]

I'm somehow sure that the following issue must have been discussed 
somewhere before but for some reason I'm not able to Google it out nor 
to find it in the bugtracker.

Problem:
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Foreign characters in select boxes (those that define MM relation 
between tables) are displayed broken.
(See http://cascaval.com/temp/typo3/typo3_select_box.png)

Description:
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Select boxes that display currently selected items are displayed 
incorrectly despite the fact that:

- the items are not broken in the database
- the items are displayed correctly everywhere else

Items are shown correctly in the right box and are even shown correctly 
in the left box when newly added. Only those items that had been already 
selected and saved are displayed broken.

Further description:
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This happens in all the forms in Typo3 (BE groups, tt_news categories, 
etc.). I have always dealt with the issue by not using characters with 
ascents in those category fields but now I cannot use this "workaround" 
any longer.

System and settings:
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PHP 5.0.4
MySQL 4.1.16 (table collation utf8_general_ci)
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8';


I would be glad if someone could give me an advice how to solve the 
problem or point me to a site where the issue was discussed before.

Thank you in advance!


Tomas Mrozek