I always forget how to force a frontend plugin to display the texts localized through $this->pi_getLL($key).

This is how it works:

class tx_extkey_piX extends tslib_pibase {
   function main() {
      $this->sys_language_uid = (int) t3lib_div::_GP('L');
      ...
   }
}

Finally it is there! The first stable release of the PDT plugin for Eclipse Ganymede (at least the first I see).

Following the project plan the M1 release should have been there yesterday - maybe they meant the stable release. I'm hoping my anticipation will not be tainted as was unable to check it out for myself till now.

I'm currently getting into the Symfony framework and I can definitly say that I like it.

But as my site was finished after only some hours I had a problem concerning the display of special characters like the umlauts (ä, ö, ü) aso. I don't use a database created by SF/Propel but use an existing one with latin1_* encoding (the default TYPO3 db encoding). Unfortunatly all umlauts where displayed as questionmark so I started finding an solution. The characters are fuzzy because they were not correctly returned by propel. I tried all configuration directives I found (setting the encoding of the connection to utf-8 aso) but nothing worked.
Finally I found a snippet that fixes the problem for me: Setting UTF-8 for Propel with MySQL tables and now everything is just fine!