We have problems with user-ids containing german characters (so-called 'Umlaute'), eg. 'ÖÄÜ' HttpServletRequest.getRemoteUser() returns only the string up-to the first umlaut, eg. for user 'MMÄHHH' we get only 'MM'. Our environment is: Tomcat 3.2.1 + mod_jk + Apache 1.3.19 Authentification is done by apache via mod_auth_mysql, apache-access-log shows correct user-id. IMHO full 8bit charset should be supported by (at least) basic-auth. Any ideas or comments? Thanks, -martin