Does Ugo's suggestion work? Your strange string looks like a valid UTF-8 encoded string.
Regards, Joerg Kenneth Roper wrote: > Firstly, thanks for everyone's suggestions, this is a very helpful list! > > Unfortunately, I am no further forward. > > Changing the encoding of the sitemap.xmap and the web.xml file has no > effect. > > Changing the encoding of the xhtml serializer looked like I was on the > right track, but unfortunately doesn't work: > > I have a this string in my db: > > "ÄäÖöÜüß" > > It is displayed on an html page generated by a cocoon pipeline. > > If I change my serializer definition in my sitemap and add this: > <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding> > The above string appears in my browser (and in the page source) as 7 > question marks, i.e. "???????" > > If I change the encoding back to this: > <encoding>UTF-8</encoding> > I can then see my original string correctly. However, if I post this > string back to my application, my application receives the string as > first detailed in the original post (i.e. "Ã"äÃ-öÃoeüÃY""). > > There is obviously a difference in encoding (or something) between text > coming from the server to the browser, and the text posted from the > browser back to the server. > > Any more ideas? > > Thanks again. > Kenneth -- System Development VIRBUS AG Fon +49(0)341-979-7419 Fax +49(0)341-979-7409 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.virbus.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
