Update functions.inc.php

[F3lisCatus]

If charset in use is not UTF-8, convert function $out to LANG_CHARSET first

[F3lisCatus]

See also issue 828: #828

[garvinhicking]

I believe your problem is that you dont have a iso88591-locale installed on your server, so a UTF-8 locale is used instead...?

[F3lisCatus]

That's quite possibly true, but since it is not my server I have absolutely no control over which locales are available... :-/

I'm going to investigate as soon as I have a decent keyboard in front of me. Debugging from a phone is not my favourite thing. ;-)

EDIT:
<?php print_r(shell_exec("locale -a")); ?> list (among others) "de_DE de_DE.iso88591"... I think that's what I wanted to hear? (Didn't know I was allowed to execute stuff like that, I hope they don't allow access more important things!) ;-)

[garvinhicking]

Here in this file we declare the used locales:

Serendipity/lang/serendipity_lang_de.inc.php

Line 9 in 1e7edd4

@define('DATE_LOCALES', 'de_DE.ISO-8859-1, de_DE.ISO8859-1, german, de_DE, de_DE@euro, de');

Your locale does not seem listed here; you could try to add it there and if it works we can make a PR for that change instead?

Thanks for helping to improve Serendipity :)

[F3lisCatus]

The complete list of supported locales is quite extensive, here are the ones for German:

de_DE de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.iso885915@euro de_DE.utf8 de_DE@euro

Seems like my provider omitted the dash between 8859 and 1, could that be the problem?

[garvinhicking]

Yes it can be dependant on the specific OS and configuration. You should be able to just add the locale to the file and place that I mentioned, add it at the beginning, not the end...?

[F3lisCatus]

I edited /lang/serendipity_lang_de.inc.php line 9 to read @define('DATE_LOCALES', 'de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.iso885915@euro, de_DE.ISO-8859-1, de_DE.ISO8859-1, german, de_DE, de_DE@euro, de'); and removed my line 162 from functions.inc.php, but does not solve my problem. "März" is back! ;-) I tried some other variations but no luck.

I think I will just keep my patch in the functions.inc.php for now. I guess there is something wrong with my configuration. I always seem to run into localization problems anyways, it's kind of my thing. ;-)

[garvinhicking]

If you want, let us debug this. I always want to know the root of this 😅
I'll get back to you next week, with a dummy script we should be able to debug this, if you want?

[F3lisCatus]

Ok, but on weekdays I don't have that much time so beware of my response times. ;-)