Hi all, i can confirm this too.
i already reported this under #664895 ... the ticket is closed but the bug is still there. I investigated some time and found the reason: PHP 5.4.0 changed the default behavior of the function "htmlspecialchars" with the parameter "encoding": > If omitted, the default value for this argument is ISO-8859-1 in versions of PHP prior to 5.4.0, and UTF-8 from PHP 5.4.0 onwards. I tried to give that function the old value 'ISO-8859-1': --- i18n.php_orig 2012-01-02 01:18:17.000000000 +0100 +++ i18n.php 2012-09-27 22:55:43.000000000 +0200 @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ } /* All HTML special characters are 7 bit and can be replaced first */ - if (! $save_html) $string = htmlspecialchars ($string); + if (! $save_html) $string = htmlspecialchars ($string, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'ISO-8859-1'); $charset = strtolower($charset); set_my_charset(); And , yeeah, i got my german umlauts back to life (showing in the message list). Maybe this helps the SQ developers to fix this issue. Maybe its a bug in PHP? Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org