Hi Tobias, _charset_ was good, though it did not do the job entirely.
I was pretty disappointed when I still had the klingon characters on my screen... But I tried several things, among others setting the form's enctype to multipart/form-data. Then, there were there... finally! Thanks so much for the tip, Tobias! Cheers, Juerg On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 02:05 +0200, Tobias Bocanegra wrote: > hi, > the FormEncoding parameter was renamed to _charset_ (see [0]): > > so: > <input name="_charset_" type="hidden" value="UTF-8"/> > > should do the trick. > regards, toby > > [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-298 > > On 8/19/08, Juerg Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This problem is driving me nuts... > > > > I don't get UTF-8 Umlaute correctly into the JCR. I double-checked > > everything to ensure the page is *really* UTF-8, and lately I discovered > > the thing with the hidden "FormEncoding" parameter. But instead of > > getting a clean 'ü', I still get something like "ü" (two byte UFT-8), > > and additionally a string property named "FormEncoding" on that node... > > > > > > Here's the JSP: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > > <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" > > pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] import="javax.jcr.query.*, javax.jcr.*, > > org.apache.sling.api.resource.Resource"%> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] session="false"%> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] prefix="sling" > > uri="http://sling.apache.org/taglibs/sling/1.0"%> > > <sling:defineObjects/> > > > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > > <head> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> > > <title>Insert title here</title> > > </head> > > <body> > > > > <form name="form1" method="post" action="<%= > > currentNode.getPath()%>" > > > > > <table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="4"> > > <tr> > > <td>Titel:</td> > > <td><input name="title" type="text" id="title" size="80" > > maxlength="128" value="<%= currentNode.getProperty("title").getString() > > %>"></td> > > </tr> > > > > <tr> > > <td><input name="FormEncoding" type="hidden" > > value="UTF-8"/> </td> > > <td><input type="submit" value="Ändern"></td> > > </tr> > > </table> > > </form> > > > > </body> > > </html> > > > > > > Here what the browser sends: > > POSTDATA=title=Hilfe+bei+Wetterf%C3%BChligkeit&FormEncoding=UTF-8 > > > > > > Any help is highly appreciated! > > > > Regards, > > > > Juerg > > > > > > > > > >
