[TYPO3-dev] utf-8 breaks in BE Headline Selector

[Andreas Förthner]

Hi,

I have switched my whole TYPO3 installation to utf-8. Frontend and 
Backend seem to work very nice so that I could enter any kind of special 
characters (I even tried chinese characters) in the BE forms/RTE and 
everything was displayed very nice in the frontend.

But there is still one problem I wasn't able to solve. I tried to rename 
the headline labels available in the CEs in page TSconfig. The problem 
now is that the label hast some german umlauts in it. In the TSconfig 
field everything is shown as it should, but in the CE forms in the 
selection for the headline the characters are wrong. The data is stored 
right in the DB because what is show there is utf-8 but interpreted as a 
characterset like latin1, so the 2 byte characters are shown as two 1 
byte characters.

This must be an internal mishandling of the blob-data from the database 
in this case. I tried it width TYPO3 v. 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 4.0beta1, 
4.0beta2, 4.0beata3 and 4.0rc1. Always the same problem, utf-8 works in 
gernal, but in this special case it breaks.

My system setup is:

MySQL5, php4, apache2 under debian sarge. MySQl, php and apache all have 
  utf-8 as default characterset, and the data is definitely stored as utf-8.

Did anyone have the same problem? If not I'll try to figure out where 
this bug comes from and add a bug to the bugtracker...

Thanks for your help!

But anyway: Hey core guys, great work with the new release it is really 
nice and makes fun to work with the new features of the 4.0 releases. I 
hope that I will be able to support the community in the future a lot 
more than for this release.

Have a nice day!

Regards

Andreas