[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Been Told

Sorry if this has been posted already, but the umlauts in the german translation don?t work and should be replaced with their respective HTML codes. I.e. ? = ä ? = Ü and so on.
I have done this. Please find the updated file attached.

Thanks for this.

I think the problem is to do with utf8 and latin1 character encodings, and we keep getting different messages from German sites as to the preferred approach.

As far as I understand (I may be wrong), the released translation displays correctly when the board's database tables are utf8 and the vb language HTML character set is also set to utf8. However, if the tables are latin 1 or the vb language HTML character set is to ISO-8859-1, then one needs to spell out the umlauts, etc, using the latin-1 escapes. Spelling them out will always work (including with a full utf8 board), so it may be the best approach. I'd welcome other people's comments.