[i18n] Problems with umlauts in translations

[Toomas Aas]

Hello!

In my previous message, I complained that I have problems with umlauts 
in Estonian translation, where the letters õüäö get displayed as 
~o"u"a"o. At the same time, I have Horde/IMP/Turba running on another 
server, where everything looks very well.

Old server (where everything works):
FreeBSD 5.2.1
Apache 2.0.49
PHP 4.3.8 (installed as Apache module)
Gettext 0.13

New server (where there is problem)
FreeBSD 4.9
Apache 1.3.31
PHP 4.3.8 (installed as CGI)
Gettext 0.13

After re-reading horde/docs/INSTALL I discovered that Horde wants PHP 
installed as Apache module. Maybe they mean it seriously? ;-)) This 
seems to be the most likely culprit, because:

- The system files for Estonian locale are identical on both servers
- I have previously run Horde apps successfully on another FreeBSD 4.9 
  server
- On the new server, German translation has the same problem as 
  Estonian translation (umlauts displayed incorrectly).
- When I run 'gettext -V' on the command line of the old server, I also 
  get "incorrect" output.

I'm speculating that since PHP/CGI is also 'sort of' command line 
interpreter, it causes the gettext/nls stuff to behave in some weird 
'command line way', munging the output of umlauts. Does anyone have any 
insight into this? Is there a way to get correct output from Horde apps 
when PHP is running as CGI? Unfortunately, there are some applications 
on the new server which REQUIRE that PHP must be installed as CGI...
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