Help Please! Big Problems with special characters (German umlauts)

[playerhater]

Hi Folks,

I experiance serious problems with german umlauts. Im using cmsms 1.2.5.
Normally, when you use german umlauts and utf-8 charset there are no problems with displaying them even if you do not use the special html code. In my installation (not local) there are following problems,which i dont have on my local installation (allready checked db collation and set both to latin1_swedish_ci which works fine on my localhost):

1. No way to display german umlauts in content area, tinemce does not insert the html code when you chose the special character from the pop up (blue omega button in tinymce). You cant even display them by writing them in html with their html codes. & will be replaced with &amp and so none of the html codes will work.

2. No way to display german umlauts in the menu. Basically the same problem, characters you type in dont appear how they are supposed to and html codes are destroyed by converting & to &amp

3. A strange thing, special characters are diplayed correctly(but only if you use the html codes, which is not right and not how it is on my local install) in global content blocks but not in the menu and in content....


What could be gone wrong so the special characters dont appear how they are supposed to in utf-8?
The thing is, that the same installation works perfect on localhost (xampp) but not on the remote server. I allready checked collation of the database and made it the same on the remote server as it is on my localhost. Still the different behaviour.
The remote server is in bulgaria. Could some global database setting be the problem?

Please help! Im really stuck with this and my client is ready to rip my head of...

Regards and thx for any help in advance

[cyberman]

1. No way to display german umlauts in content area, tinemce does not insert the html code

There are some options in TinyMCE admin you should activate / change them

tab settings - activate "Show checkbox to turn wysiwyg on/off:"
tab advanced - choose another option for "Encoding of entities:" like "named encoding"

[RvdS]

Just wanting to say thank you for solving this. I was struggling with the same problem.