You might want to set the following init-params for cocon servlet in your web.xml
form-encoding to UTF-8 container-encoding to ISO8859-1 Artur... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: March 3, 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: form encoding problems > > > Hi All, > > This is possibly a trivial mistake ... but I never came across it > before. > > I have a search form for searching Lucene. Mozilla confirms > the page is > in UTF-8 encoding. > > I enter a string with accented characters into the query field. eg > 'éclair' (e-acute). > > The form comes back with the string now reading 'éclair'. (A-tilde, > Copyright sign). Mozilla says the encoding is still UTF-8. (The value > has been picked up by an InputModule and fed via the SiteMap to XSLT). > > The query string in the URL reads 'query=%C3%A9clair', which are the > unicodes for 'A-tilde' and 'Copyright' characters. (Which would imply > to me that the Browser incorrectly encoded the query.) > > This makes me feel like I have done something really dumb, > but I cannot > work out what ;) > > Incidentally, the search form in the Cocoon Samples does exactly the > same thing!! > > Any suggestions? > > regards Jeremy > >