note 59915 added to function.strftime

I was wondering if UTF-8 encoding can have an effect on time display. I have a problem with days expressed in french. The date format displayed under every news shows weird characters instead of accented letters, voyals, like é or à. I suppose that the coder is using php functions to determine the date display, but I was thinking that because of that, the time displayed in french is handled by php, so the encoding could be ISO. Can someone help? ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59915 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59915&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59915&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php