public function encodeString($sString)
    {
        //If shop is running in UTF-8 nothing to do here
        if ($this->getConfig()->isUtf() === true) {
            return $sString;
        }

        $sShopEncoding = $this->getLanguage()->translateString('charset');
        return iconv('UTF-8', $sShopEncoding, $sString);
    }