Changes are made at your own risk and are not guaranteed, either by the author or the administrator, to work. You should always make backups of the original files so that you can revert back to them, as well as backups of the database in case you really mess up.
Best Practice
Make a duplicate copy of your original weblog template group, or create a backup copy. This allows you to rollback quickly to a pristine version of the original templates.
Also, note with hacks that they are dangerous and can cause your site to stop working. They also make later updates to EE more difficult and you should track the hacks you use if you are going to use them, or you may lose the functionality later on down the line when you upgrade.
Change charset for emails
If you are a non-English user and want to use a different character set than UTF-8 for formatting email messages sent via the console, you have to hack
core/core.email.php
around line 40: Find
var $charset = "UTF-8";
and change it according to your preferences, e.g.
var $charset = "iso-8859-1";
if you want to use German umlauts.
Category:Hacks Category:Languages