[TYPO3] Saving UTF8 files in BE

Lars Haendler typo3 at larshaendler.com
Mon Aug 18 15:38:49 CEST 2008


Andrew Plank wrote:
> Lars Haendler wrote:
>> Are you sure you did not put html entities in locallang file? Those 
>> should better be stored as CDATA.
>>
>> What exactly does the error message say? How does the line look it 
>> refers to?
>>
>> Greetings
>> Lars
> 
> If I copy'n'paste from a source, and that source includes the Danish æ ø 
> å characters, and then save the aforementioned locallang.xml file in 
> Quixplorer, when I try to view the extension in the FE that makes use of 
> this locallang file, I get an error, for example:
> 
> The file 
> "/var/www/vhosts/*******.dk/httpdocs/typo3conf/ext/sr_email_subscribe/pi1/dk.locallang.xml" 
> is no TYPO3 language file!
> 
> However, if I paste the copied data directly into a text editor (in my 
> case Dreamweaver) and then FTP the file up to the server, it works fine. 
> Obviously, when subsequently editing the file in Quixplorer, the UTF8 
> entities are converted to for example Ã¥ = å
> 
> The only difference that I can think of, is that when saving the file in 
> Dreamweaver, it saves it and encodes it as a UTF8 file, whereas 
> Quixplorer doesn't.
> 
> But I could be wrong...

Ah, okay ... got you wrong on your problem. Dmitry's answer will help 
your more.

Greetings
Lars


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