From 53b3161283720248127936410a3d8eb5cacafa84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carsten Rose <carsten.rose@math.uzh.ch>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 16:48:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #10599 / add note to escapeshellarg() removes non ascii
chars
---
Documentation/Manual.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/Manual.rst b/Documentation/Manual.rst
index a95ee28ad..c4f9e39eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/Manual.rst
+++ b/Documentation/Manual.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@ If there are problems with converting/downloading FE_GROUP protected pages, chec
and so on! Typically some of them fails to load and wkhtml stops running! Verify the correct loading of all elements
by calling the site via a regular browser and bypassing any browser cache (Ctrl F5).
+.. note::
+
+ On Ubuntu, Apache is started by default with `LANG=C`. This is true even when the OS default locale is set to `en_US.UTF-8`.
+ Furthermore, all child processes of Apache will inherit `LANG=C`. Some PHP functions (like 'escapeshellarg()')
+ or `wkhtml` will strip all non-ASCII characters (e.g. commandline arguments).
+
+ Let Apache run with the system locale: `/etc/apache/envvars`, activate the line `. /etc/default/locale` and restart Apache.
+
Checklist wkhtml problems
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