Problems with Umlauts and other special characters

Question

I'm using Q2A with WYSIWYG Editor v1.1.1, and there's a problem with special characters like German umlauts (ä,ü,ö).  For some reason, when a question gets posted, there's a double conversion to html:

ü   in the WYSIWYG editor  becomes  ¨ in the source code.  So in the end, ü is rendered as ¨

I initially had a warning on the admin pages that my version of php does not support multibyte strings.  Now our system administrator has added the packages php7.4-mbstring, php7.4-intl und php7.4-pspell, and the warning is gone.  However, the problem I have just described persists.  

What other possible sources of this unfortunate behaviour could I investigate?

Further Information (2021-06-08):

A(n awkward) work-around for the problem is to include some LaTeX-snippet in the text.  Umlauts are displayed perfectly in posts that contain LaTeX.

Answer 1

Can try

Edit  file

qa-plugin\wysiwyg-editor\ckeditor\config.js

Add

config.entities = false;

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Comments

thank you. so much

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did it work for you?

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Unfortunately no, this did not help me:  "config.entities = false" was already part of my configuration.