[TYPO3-core] RFC: garbage characters displayed in flexforms (#4085, #4813)

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> I think that this problem will go away when I finish my still pending 
> charset patch.

What exactly is going to be in that patch? After thinking for a while I 
doubt it will help to my problem simply because you may not change the 
whole BE from limited charsets (like latin1, windows-1257 or koi8-r) to 
utf-8. For example, here in Latvia most sites use windows-1257 and many 
browsers are hard-coded to that encoding. So UTF-8 based sites have 
difficulties with displaying. Same in Russia, where standard de facto is 
windows-1251 and many people cannot (or do not want to) see sites in 
other encodings. Even many typo3-based sites in Russia use windows-1251.

$LANG always converts from current BE charset (which can be latin1, etc) 
to desired charset. My patch is only specifying correct _source_ charset 
for the string. I really doubt you can correct it in any other way.

In fact I expected that this change will get two +1s the same day... :(

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