Kirbytext() and Umlaute

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Hi,

why doesn’t kirbytext() encode German Umlaut (ä/ö/ü) to html entities (ä/ö/ü)?
Is this not necessary in HTML5 or can I switch this on somehow?

When instead using something like ->html()->kirbytext() it will mess up <a>s that contain an Umlaut, since kirbytext() does encode them correctly when they are in a markdown like (link: http://umlaut.de text: Ümläüt) – so this doesn’t solve it.

Any ideas?

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It is not necessary to encode umlauts if you set character encoding to utf-8 in your document head.

3

Thanks! Nice to know.