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. "ÄäÖöÜüß"). 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]>