Stärken und Schwächen should link, make sure your PHP is configured with
mbstring (see the installation section or ask your host to enable it) and that ä is the actual character and not the HTML
&whatever; entity. If you don't want links, you'll need to play around with the gal_link_popup template. Maybe SPAN instead of A HREF will do but you'll need to
test
it out. For the JavaScript, do the edit listed
here.