[TYPO3-core] RFC #12661: Problem with german "Umlaute" in BE file list, no thumbs generated

[Martin Kutschker]

Jigal van Hemert schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: Bugfix
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12661
> 
> Branches: 4_3, 4_2, trunk
> 
> escapeshellarg() drops "special characters" (diacriticals, etc.) if
> there is no appropriate locale set for LC_CTYPE. This results in an
> incorrect path and/or filename and no thumbnail is generated in the
> backend or frontend.
> 
> Solution: if $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['UTF8filesystem'] is set LC_CTYPE
> locale is set with a generally available locale which supports the utf-8
> character set. After escapeshellarg is called the original locale is
> restored.

Ok, but why do you tyr to set 'en_US', 'American', 'ENG', 'English'?

Nitpicking: Wouldn't it be better to set the locale also for the whole BE? Currently the admin can
only define the locale for FE rendering but the BE runs always in the same locale (with the locale
set oustide of TYPO3).

Masi