[TYPO3-ect] lib/div SVN: problems with german umlauts in locallang.xml - can't find the reason

[Franz Koch]

Hi guys,

> I have met the same problem for the French language. I've noticed that 
> the words with accents in the "default" section of localconf.xml are not 
> outputed correctly.
> 
> However, in the "fr" section (or "de") the final render is correct. To 
> solve my problem I added :
> 
> $translator->altLLkey = 'fr';
> 
> 
> my final code looks like this :
> $translator = $this->makeInstance('tx_lib_translator', $view);
> $translator->altLLkey = $this->configurations['lang'];
> return $translator->translateContent();

I still have the problem that german umlauts don't get displayed 
correctly. Everything is in uft8, but the umlauts (from 'de' section of 
locallang.xml) are still rendered in iso-latin-1 :(

I really need some help. Nothing seems to work. I even converted every 
file of lib to utf-8.

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Thanks,
Franz