[Tickets #7244] Re: problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7244
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  Ticket             | 7244
  Updated By         | m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de
  Summary            | problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de (2008-08-28 12:31) wrote:

> What's wrong with that? It's the expected behavior.

with unix OS depending on your distribution / OS vendor your shell's  
encoding settings can differ (ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, etc.) and that has  
consequences for special characters (above the 8-bit threshold) in  
prefs.php/conf.php

so if this not a bug (it is to my point of view) which encoding  
(charset) is used / presumed when including the prefs.php / conf.php  
files? does the php include function/command take the user's language  
/ charset into consideration (i.e. the shell's LANG variable, talking  
about unix systems here)? alternatively, is there a way to tell php:  
this very specific php file (e.g. prefs.php) is written in charset  
UTF-8 (my shell's default charset) while other files are written in  
ISO-8859-15 etc.?

when i put an umlaut in my prefs.php i surely want horde / php be able  
to understand what i mean...