why are national letters (ěščř) converted to html special chars?

[Connie]

Chris,

The problem is in htmlentities() function used in function safe_slash_html() and in settings.php for $SITENAME, so I removed it.

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

this function is not needed anymore. It was needed in times when pages were not coded in UTF-8 with limited charactersets and codepages, when browsers were configured to show pages in american codepage f.e., and it was necessary to have special characters presented correctly (remember: english has no umlauts for example, german or turkish language has many...)

so, nowadays, when GS is completely in UTF-8, templates are in UTF-8, plugins are coded in UTF-8, this special treatment is not needed anymore, but does some harm at some places

so take it off in the above named functions, I would even recommend to never use it again ;=)