Using drupal 5.1 I cannot get the Swedish characters å, ä and ö to display in local menus or descriptions when working with the Form API. Neither using the ASCII code for the characters or the HTML equivalen (e.g., ä) work. They also do not display properly in drop-down lists. Instead an odd character displays, or when using the HTML equivalent, the HTML codes is not translated into the respective characters.

Am I doing something wrong since they do display properly ielsewhere in drupal, at least those parts I have used to date.

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majsan’s picture

majsan commented

You have got a private message because I don't know if I really can help, but I have to complete my answer so I might as well do it here (enclose my first answers).

If you have another character-format than UTF-8 in your .po-files for the affected modules you might get strange characters.
*** You may also check the characterformatting in your database

Only times I have had trouble is when I installed Glossary-module, see http://drupal.org/node/105971 and http://drupal.org/node/48966 and when I tried out some theme (I can't remember which one) that changed lower-case letters to upper-case of primary links. I solved the theme-problem by looking the formatting up in the code and change or remove it so the text showed up as I had written it.

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dpearcefl commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Due to the age of the last comment on this issue and due to the fact that D5 is no longer supported, I am closing this issue.