When i want to use German Entities like ä, ö, ü, i have to write them in HTML-Entities like ä and so on. In the Menu Listing the Entities aren't converted and still appear as ä instead of ä. So i'm not able to use German special vars in the Menu.

(sorry for bad english)

Greetings from Berlin

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Peejot commented
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Steven commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

This is by design. HTML entities are unsupported in plain-text fields.

Drupal uses UTF-8, so you can use any (Unicode) character directly in any field. If characters are being garbled, your database is not set up correctly.

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Peejot commented

Those Menu-Items aren't cached. When i'm using those entities directly it will only appear a questionmark. So the german Word "Übersicht" looks "?bersicht".

When the Menu-Items are loaded from Database, there's no Problem. But i think it's better for internationalizing when it works also directly "from file".

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yched commented

I stumbled on the same issue (with french accents...) for the hard-coded strings in my module.

I've come to the following 'empiric' workarounds :

- wrap all of them inside drupal_convert_to_utf8('whàtévêr wîth äccents', 'ASCII')
rather tedious, and probably performance killer ?

- or encode my php files directly in utf8 (via your IDE's settings)

Any advice / confirmation / tip is welcome...