[Typo3-dev] Mini news and Northern Sami

[Børre Gaup]

Hello, all!

Hope this goes to the right list, if not, please point me to the right one:-)

I am setting up a site in Northern Sami/Swedish, using the templavoila 
extension (which is really sweet, once you get the hang of it). 
I use utf-8 as the input and output encoding, and Debian unstable as the 
development system.

I imported the Static info tables extension, and added a record for Northern 
Sami, and after some fumbling got my project to show both my Northern Sami 
and Swedish content.

So far I have found two problems:

When I imported the mini-news extension I found that the swedish translations 
have the language code "se", which incidentally is the IS0-639 code for 
Northern Sami. I changed the swedish translations to the correct "sv" code, 
and put my northern sami translations under the "se" one. That's probably a 
"system wide" problem for Typo3.

The other problem is that Northern Sami uses charaters as ŧ (t slash), ŋ (eng) 
and đ (d slash). These characters are found in e.g. iso-8859-10 or utf-8. The 
file which has the translations for the mini-news extension is coded in 
iso-8859-1 (as far as I could tell). When I had made the Northern Sami 
translation, I saved the file using the utf-8 encoding, and then the Northern 
Sami translation of mini-news on the webpages becomes garbled ("two times 
utf-8'ed :-)")

How can I hack my way to solve the latter problem, and what is the proper 
solution to these two problems?

Regards,
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Børre Gaup, Kiruna, Sweden