>> Here is the recent draft that core team uses de facto: >> http://forge.typo3.org/repositories/entry/typo3v4-core/Documentation/trunk/doc_core_cgl/doc/doc_core_cgl.sxw?format=raw "Character set TYPO3 PHP files use iso-8859-1 character set." Why don't you allow also utf-8 for PHP files? - Franz