[TYPO3-core] RFC #12661: Problem with german "Umlaute" in BE file list, no thumbs generated

[Christian Kuhn]

Hey.

Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>> Nitpicking: Wouldn't it be better to set the locale also for the
>> whole BE? Currently the admin can only define the locale for FE
>> rendering but the BE runs always in the same locale (with the locale 
>> set oustide of TYPO3).
> 
> Yes, that would be better. I think that the locale settings for the 
> entire backend will influence more than just the working of 
> escapeshellarg. What will happen with settings for date and time 
> formats, etc.?

That's my feeling, too. We shouldn't take any risk here, at least for 
4.3 and 4.2, those simple hacks seem fine for me, we're already running 
a similar patch in production.

For trunk we might think about setting LC_TYPE at some central place and 
test this for some time? Any opinions by someone with better knowledge 
of which side effects this might cause?

<?php
	print_r(setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 0));
?>

Running this from cli gives me 'en_US.UTF-8', and 'C' if called as cgi.


Regards
Christian