Strftime date shows � instead of "ä", "ü", "ö"

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Hi,

I’ve set in my config:

  'date'  => [
    'handler' => 'strftime'
  ],

in order to show a date like this: 29. September 2022

But when I set the language of my website to German, it shows a “?” symbol instead of the german Umlaute ä, ü, ö. (e.g. 22. M�rz 2022)
I saw in other posts that it has something to do with UTF-8 and locale settings, but what do I have to change and where?

my whole config.php:

<?php 
return [
  'debug' => true,
  'languages' => true,
  'languages.detect' => true,
  'date'  => [
    'handler' => 'strftime'
  ],
];

Or is it maybe not necessary to use the strftime format at all?

Thanks in advance!

2

The strftime handler is deprecated and shouldn’t be used anymore (see docs). For internationalzed dates, better use the intl handler.

3

@pixelijn That solved my problem immediately, thank you. :slight_smile: