Moin,

So you are on the sitemap page and trying to add a new page? And when you do it just stops working while you are typing it in?

I'm using the latest version of c5 and it ignores strange characters for the url string.

I just fix them up so for a page like:

über uns the alias comes up as "_ber_uns".

So I just switch it to ueber_uns and all is well.

I hope that was the problem you were having, if not let me know.

well yes thats the problem. I can't say my client "sorry we must write UEBER instead of ÜBER - thats just wrong looking and works strange and not very well thought about...

so the idea is okay, that was what i've done to get it running at all at least usefull even when it looks wrong.

But thats no final solution.

if the sitename would have an __ber instead of über , okay np, BUT if as long it's only way showing ü ä ö up in the Menu is using ü=ue ä=ae ö=oe - sorry but that just unproffessional - the funny thing at all is: üäö works in text editor and so on - the prob just starts at with the sitemap inside the dashboard and with that also with menues/nav-bars referring to the sitemap.

So how to fix that the professional way?

I'm not sure are talking about the same thing, but I am talking about the page alias: akahttp://domain.com/ueber_uns/

It is recommend not to use umlauts in urls as not all browsers have support for them. Nor does google index them properly. They would have to be url encoded just to show up in the url in the first place, you need to use a special tool to do that and it the resulting url is not pleasant.

http://www.denic.de/de/domains/idns/tool.jsp...

Umlauts will work anywhere else in the system as far as I can tell, I added a page named "über uns" as I described before, using the alias ueber_uns. It shows up just fine in the menu, in the sitemap list etc...

well it's well known by me having no Umlauts at the URL.

BUT i've
Standard Proberties: Röntgen
and my path is for URL: r_ntgen

so saving that it puts out a R in the Menu followed by nothing at all.
The Url works fine that way.

changing ö to oe i get back the Standard Proberties: Roentgen

so may this belong to language packs? Do you work with deDE-Languagepack instead of the preconfigured one? then it would be logical why it may works at your system - with my one it doesn't - i just tryed it again to get sure I'm not totally mad.

Anyway thx for help so far.

Can I see this on a live site?

I haven't used any of the language packs before sorry :(

http://concrete5.defunctlife.com/de/?lang=de

On the bottom right I have the Über Uns link generated by the auto_nav, not the alias is still in English, about_us.

okay tested it on c5 testsite and on my server...


it works fine on the Demo - there i get ÖÄÜ as much as i want.
ÜBER MICH, ALIAS: _ber_mich
Röntgen turns out as Röntgen
so far here it all works fine.


But now for the 2. test - the serverinstallation i host my site:

the wanted and tested
"Über mich"
gets out a
sitenameoutput: (NO TITLE) and
an ALias: _ber_mich

Röntgen
gets out a
sitenameoutput: R
and an ALias: r_ntgen


the funny thing is same words different outputs. there must be a simple reason for that.maybe its just a bug or something .
I read in another post that a russian guy had same probs with russian letters (okay nobody had an answer for him so it didn't brought a solution but means i'm not alone with lettertrouble)


short update:
I also tryed adding &ouml for the ö - the output there was R&oumltgen...so that also did not the trick...

Not sure what would be causing that issue, here are somethings I can think of off the top of my head:

1) gettext isn't properly installed or compiled for PHP
2) Your template is not UTF-8 encoded.
3) the locale on the machine is not configured correctly.

Not sure what else :(

yes it seems to be the one server only.
The machine is build up by ourself , i tested same install with another server and there its actually no problem all working fine so far.

thx for the ideas i will check out these and will update what it was in the end.