[fixed] date-field > special char encoding

hi there,

this is either my mistake or a small bug, dunno:

I had a date-field that rendered wrong special chars in month names (german month name "März" had a diamond char instead of the ~"auml")
Wrapping the display of the month in php: htmlentities( $sMonthName , ENT_COMPAT,'ISO-8859-1', true) fixed it. (from php.net/manual/de/function.htmlspecialchars.php#112476 )

This is in my field config:
FIELD TYPE specific configuration > Date part >
Date format = custom format
Custom format = <empty>
Language filter format = no

Something I did wrong here?

[setup]
fc 3.0.13

Hello

i don't know if this is a bug,
- can you post a picture of the date configuration to reproduce this
- also type the text that you added in custom date format here or is the custom format empty ?
- finally what is "$sMonthName " ?
where (which file) did you put the code :

htmlentities( $sMonthName , ENT_COMPAT,'ISO-8859-1', true)

hi George,

1) i attached a picture of my field config
2) the custom format is empty (, not the string "<empty>", but strlen=0 )
3) ok, this might be the answer:
$sMonthName comes from:
3.1) $iTimestamp = strtotime($date);
3.2) $sMonthName = strftime('%B',$iTimestamp);
4) i put the code htmlentities( $sMonthName , ENT_COMPAT,'ISO-8859-1', true) into my FC-template

So, this seems to be no bug, but a wrong php-config on my website (; or could FC handle that depending on Joomla's FE-language-setting? Or should Joomla handle that anyway?..)

Ps: Another fix (instead of htmlentities) is