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this solutions work for me:

enable special characters in field value:
<div style="visibility: hidden">[abase sql="SET @@session.character_set_results=utf8"]</div>

enable special characters in column names:
<div style="visibility: hidden">[abase sql="SET @@session.character_set_client=utf8"]</div>

Another buggy thing beside the “?” in the sql results is that I get an error when there is a special character in the column name:

#1. [abase sql="SELECT Straße FROM [...]"]
Fatal Error (1431)
Unknown column 'Straße' in 'field list'
You are using the sql="" attribute so make sure it contains a valid SQL statement. Check to make sure the spelling of all table or column names within the SQL statement are exactly correct.

Oh God, look down from heaven. What am I to do?