Thanks for the excellent responses. I now understand how C3 and 89 are derived. I tried getting everything set the way I intrepreted what the list responses said to do. The scenario is: I have a page with some diacritical characters displayed and a input text box and a submit button. I copy and past one of the displayed characters into the input box and then submit. What is submitted gets echoed back. The pages use style sheets so I cut and pasted the relevant tags, etc.
I thought I found the problem. My response had a character encoding of null. I read null defaults to 8859-1 which seemed consistent with my echoed page. So, I explicitly set the response character encoding to UTF-8 via the setContentType method. I used a TCP tunneler to see what my request and responses look like. My browser is set to utf-8 also. >From the tunneler my request had the following posted data: v904=%C3%89 this is >correct according to how the utf encoding algo was explained. The http response had the following: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 this is correct. <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> is a child in the <head> tag <span class="text29">É ê ë í î ï ð ñ ó ô õ ö</span> these are the listed characters on the previous page I cut and past from they are listed on this page just for reference - (#201 = C9) is É. <span class="text17">Accented Characters from previous form: É </span> this is echoed back. #195 = C3 and #137 = 89. These, of course, are displayed as Ã?. I checked the browser to be sure and its encoding is still set to utf-8 and it is. This is everything I know to check. What am I missing?
