problems with umlauts.

[eluser]Clooner[/eluser]
[quote author="helle" date="1279722874"]the output was not in the browser, but in the logfile on a linux machine.

by the way: i set

Code:

<meta charset="UTF-8" />

p.s.:
sorry, if my politenes is missing, i am damn angry on myself having that problem :-D[/quote]

I believe you have to correctly set the content-type with a charset associated with that

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">