[TYPO3-ect] lib/div SVN: problems with german umlauts in locallang.xml - can't find the reason

[Steffen Kamper]

"Franz Koch" <typo.removeformessage at fx-graefix.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1198146774.684.typo3-team-extension-coordination at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi list,
>
> I'm just building up a small extension using the current lib/div SVN
> version. Everything is working fine so far, except of the translator
> class. I have some german umlauts in my UTF-8 locallang.xml file, but
> they have the wrong encoding on my website. The website is configured
> for utf-8 (BE, FE, DB) and I didn't have any charset problems on it over
> the last year. Only my new developed extension with lib/div is
> converting the output charset to iso-latin1 instead of utf-8. All my
> php-files, templates etc. are utf-8 - so that shouldn't be the problem.
> I simply don't find the reason for the charset problem.
>
> Has somebody any hint what could be wrong here?
>
> Thanks a lot.
> --
> Greetings,
> Franz

Hi Franz,

do you use umlauts in default section? This causes errors, default section 
is not allowed to have special chars, any other section is.

vg  Steffen