If you run scripts to handle text output by cronjobs your perhaps get problems with umlouds “ÖÄÜ” cause they are displayed by “**”.
This is a problem cause cron uses “C” setting as locale, you can test it by setting it into root crontab:
open crontab from root with:
$su - root $crontab -
insert
* * * * * locale
This will mail cron’s locale echo to the mailbox of root! Read root’s mail!
After tests remove the locale entry at crontab!
Howto fix for Scripts:
open crontab from root with:
$su - root $crontab -e
insert (for German):
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
for US:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8