Umlaut in custom_strings.php

[GeroldK]

Hi,

I have added a new status to a Mantis 1.1.6 system carefully following the instructions in the manual.

Our $s_status_enum_string in custom_strings.php contains german umlauts. Those display correctly in the editor (wordpad and notepad were used), but display as questionmarks in the browser. I tried saving as text and unicode text. The latter makes the pages really look funny. Seems PHP source cannot be unicode (as you can tell by now I'm a PHP illiterate).

For now I placed it in strings_german.txt (and other places where it shouldn't be) and it is working, but I'm worried about the next upgrade.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

/GeroldK

[Kirill]

Try use different editors, such as Akelpad or Notepad2. You can find his on Google. Its free.

[Buga]

I had the same issue but as I didnt want to waste to much time I simply wrote the umlaut in the "wrong" way.
eg.
ü = ü
ä = ä
ö = ö

If you find a proper solution let me know:)