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 > > > > >