UTF-8 Problems

Hi,
i try to change my website to utf-8.
My Database is utf-8, i wrote it in the <meta> header and saved my files with UTF-8 Encoding.
But still some german specialchars like the german äöü are shown as &#65533;
What can i do`
i use tbs v2. Is it helpful to upgate for this problem?
Thanks tobi

You can define the relevant charset at the LoadTemplate() method. This is described in the manual. If the UTF-8 charset doesn't work for you, you can try with a custom function that uses htmlspecialchars(utf8_encode($x)) instead. I had to do that once.

The charset feature is the same between TBS 2 and TBS 3.

okay, but I wrote this:
$TBS->LoadTemplate('../tmpl/show_filter.tpl', 'UTF-8');
and it helped nothing.

where do i have to add the line you told me? In the class? As function?

Thanks for explaining!

I had the same problem. I don't know why, PHP doesn't convert UTF-8 chars like this.
I suggest to use a custom function like this:

thanks, it works perfect.

Is it prossible to change the class, so that i dont have to change it everywhere in the files.
Or set it as default?

Okay I know how to do it.

you have to open the file: tbs_class.php

and change the line:

// Public methods

function LoadTemplate($File,$HtmlCharSet='=f_utf8_conv') {

You can aslo make a small plug-in for that :