[TYPO3-mvc] Why won't my extender render umlauts?

[Bastian Waidelich]

Bastian Waidelich wrote:
> Oliver Salzburg wrote:

> Maybe the reason is, because you remove special characters in your
> clean() method  [...]

Again, a bit more detailed (as on SO):

you call Tx_Downloads_Utility_Filename::construct($linkName) which (by 
default) calls Tx_Downloads_Utility_Filename::clean($linkName) which 
again removes all the special characters by replacing anything that 
doesn't match the regex pattern /([[:alnum:]_\.-]*)/ by underscores. 
There seems to be a problem with encoding (maybe your db is not set to 
UTF-8 encoding) so Text_File_Sömething is actually turned into 
Text_File_Sömething and the clean() method turns that into an invalid 
string. try using utf8_encode() on the $filename first.

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Bastian Waidelich
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