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Yes Garvin, I’ve read. But I’m not happy editing files, because I’m afraid to get in trouble after some S9Y-updates. Or I maybe I can gat in trouble with other side effects with other issues.
My S9Y installation has only been changed from me with stylesheets. That’s really great, because so I don’t have to think about managing change issues of my S9Y installation. That’s the reason I decided against WP or other blogs and nukes. I like the simplicity of S9Y. It is so easy to install, I didn’t wasted time to think about programming, and I didn't had any bigger difficulties. I’m afraid that if I start changing some files this will change. I don’t like this, because if I change something manually, I have to invest in time to learn about the backgrounds, to understand what I’m doing about. Again: Serendipity is in my point of view a great example of opensource software I eveter tested, it is for an example, easier than gallery2, but gallery has great features (and it looks nice too), so I’m interested in a bridge.
Please keep Serendipity as easy as it is. Great work! I hope you understand my reservations against fiddling around on the great S9Y software!
Regards, Benjamin

Hi again,
I tested something out: Changing my blog to UTF-8 solved this problem, but I'm in trouble with my older entries (edited after update 9.0.1 or 9.0). Searching the forum for a way changing old entries to UTF-8 didn’t yielded to a solution. Isn’t there any way to change older entries with german national character set to UTF-8? As I’ve heard about, UTF-8 is more flexible, just better than national character sets (but maybe I’m wrong).
Regard’s Benjamin

No way to do that, as far as I know, except manually.

Sorry.

The link for the reason is here:

http://www.s9y.org/46.html

Btw, Benjamin: The fix you need to apply is done on the GALLERY files, not on the Serendipity files. You don't need to touch any Serendipity file, because it is a Gallery bug and not a Serendipity bug.

Regards,
Garvin