# \#2201 - Incorrect german 'Umlauts' when using GroupDAV with Lightning or Kontact

**URL:** <http://discourse.egroupware.org/t/2201-incorrect-german-umlauts-when-using-groupdav-with-lightning-or-kontact/33465>\
**Category:** eGW-tracker\
**Created:** [July 30, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](http://discourse.egroupware.org/t/2201-incorrect-german-umlauts-when-using-groupdav-with-lightning-or-kontact/33465 "2009-07-30T18:11:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](http://discourse.egroupware.org/t/2201-incorrect-german-umlauts-when-using-groupdav-with-lightning-or-kontact/33465/1 "2009-07-30T18:11:26Z")

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Neues Ticket erstellt von Daniel Simon am 2009/07/30 20:11  
Verfolgungssystem: Bugs  
Kategorie: GroupDAV  
Version: Version 1.6.001  
Status: Offen  
Prozent erledigt: 0%  
Priorität: 5 - mittlere  
Erstellt von: Daniel Simon  
Zugewiesen an: Ralf Becker  
Zusammenfassung: #2201 - Incorrect german ‘Umlauts’ when using GroupDAV with Lightning or Kontact  
When accessing calendars with Thunderbird/Lightning or Kontact via GroupDAV the following problem orrurs:  
Events containing german umlauts AND carriage returns are dispayed malformed. Instead of the umlauts something like ‘=C3=B6=C3=A4=C3=BC=0D=0A=C3=96=C3=84=C3=9C=0D=0A=C3=9F=C3=9F=C3=9F’ is diplayed, which are the utf-8 hex-codes of the according umlauts. If the events contain umlauts, but NO carriage returns everything works fine, instead.  
In the WebUI or while using iCalSrv umlauts are generally working right.

The origin of the events doesn’t matter, when the mentioned problem occurs. They could have been created using the WebUI, iCal or even CalDAV. There’s no difference.  
eGroupware and MySQL-Database are using UTF-8-Encoding.

Tested Versions were:

eGroupware 1.6.001 + 1.6.002

- Ubuntu 8.10 Server 64-bit -  
Kernel 2.6.27-14-server  
Apache2 2.2.9-7ubuntu3.2  
PHP 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.2  
MySQL 5.0.67-0ubuntu6

- Ubuntu 8.10 Server 32-bit -  
(Same configuration as 64-bit-version above)

- Debian 5.0.2 Lenny 32-bit -  
Kernel 2.6.26-2-686  
Apache2 2.2.9-10+lenny4  
PHP 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3  
MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny1

Clients:  
Thunderbird (2.0.0.22 + 2.0.0.21) with Lightning 0.9 (on Ubuntu-Linux 9.04 and Windows 2000 / XP)  
Kontact 1.4.2

Linked entries:  
[http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=tracker.tracker\_ui.edit&tr\_id=2201&no\_popup=1](http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=tracker.tracker_ui.edit&tr_id=2201&no_popup=1)