non-ASCII characters get rendered as two character sequences.

[BodoDasBroetchen]

Hi, I just installed Civi into WordPress.

Wordpress locale is "de_DE". For some reason, without ".UTF-8" appended. (changing the language to de_DE.UTF-8 breaks things, as it makes the WorldPress interface switch to English.)

Apparently, this locale setting is somehow incompatible with CiviCRM.

In Civi's interface, non-ascii characters such as the € sign appear rendered as two-letter sequences, suggesting that they are interpreted as Ascii characters instead.

Is there any known remedy?