problems with umlauts.

[eluser]helle[/eluser]
hmmm ... i'm not developing on windows, but the webapp should run on windows an linux and mac as well ...

[eluser]Clooner[/eluser]
I see now that your problem is with the logfiles. Can't you change the encoding on that? because it seems to me that you want utf-8 but display it as a different charset.