> How does the OS effect the decoding / accepting of the submitted forms?
You might want to check that you have UTF-8 installed as a locale first. Since you are using Debian do: bash:# locale -a If you see UTF-8 in the output then you should su to the user that starts tomcat (probably root) and do: bash:# export LANG=fr_BE.utf8 bash:# export LC_ALL=fr_BE.utf8 and then restart tomcat in that environment and test your form. If there is no UTF-8 when you do "locale -a" then you should do: bash# dpg-reconfigure locales and you will get a screen where you can enable support for UTF-8. If you are using a stock Debian kernel this will work without recompiling. This solved some problems for me but I use en_US.utf8 jonathan soons --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]