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

[Jigal van Hemert]

Martin Kutschker wrote:
> Jigal van Hemert schrieb:
>> 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'?

It's hard to tell which locales are installed on a server. These are
accepted by Windows servers.

> 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).

Yes, that would be better. I think that the locale settings for the 
entire backend will influence more than just the working of 
escapeshellarg. What will happen with settings for date and time 
formats, etc.?

Anyway, this bug was introduced when esacpeshellarg was used instead of 
wrapping the filename in double quotes. This is the least disruptive way 
to solve it.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert.