Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:04:36 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7209 Special Characters in Category Labels / Charset issue Hello, I got a litte problem which seems to be a charset issue. I got some "global" Category Labels defined in config/prefs.php and my users got the same Labels defined so they can use them. This way I have coloured labels for my shared calendar that can be viewed by guests. Now while these Labels work for my users (stored in MySQL Database with charset UTF-8) the guest user does not see the colours with labels that got special characters (ö,ü,ä...) in them. Everything on my System is UTF-8. So it seems somewhere a conversion is done that is not wanted. You can see an example here on April 1st: http://www.fstph.at/horde/kronolith/month.php?month=4&year=2008 tia Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:52:05 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7209#t48231 Can you please attach the relevant bits of prefs.php? Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:22:54 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7209#t48234 > Can you please attach the relevant bits of prefs.php? I think that would be these ones here: // categories $_prefs['categories'] = array( 'value' => 'SpieleVideoFestl|Politik|Freizeit|Prüfungen|Physik/Vorträge|Studienrelevantes', 'locked' => false, 'shared' => true, 'type' => 'implicit' ); // category colors $_prefs['category_colors'] = array( 'value' => 'SpieleVideoFestl:#147bff|Politik:#ff56ca|Freizeit:#d1ff2d|Prüfungen:#661a00|Physik/Vorträge:#f8ff28|Studienrelevantes:#fe9900', 'locked' => false, 'shared' => true, 'type' => 'implicit' ); // UI for category management. $_prefs['categorymanagement'] = array( 'type' => 'special' ); Thats the only thing I changed manually. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:26:13 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7209#t48236 There is no charset assumed for configuration files, so you have to save them in the charset that most users are supposed to use, i.e. UTF-8. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:00:43 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7209#t48237 > There is no charset assumed for configuration files, so you have to > save them in the charset that most users are supposed to use, i.e. > UTF-8. As I already said, everythning is UTF-8 on my system. I just checked that again, so there is no error in that. Even if this is not a bug, there has to be a small problem somewhere. All other categories are matched correctely except the ones with special characters. I even created some categories for testing containig characters like /,&.... which are also not matched correctely. Maybe this is wanted, I don't know, I just wanted to tell you so you can react to it. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:00:33 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7209#t48247