> There is an issue with accented chars and the sling user manager. > > I do a web based interface for the nodes below /system/userManager. > > When I POST to createUser or updateUser, then accented chars are messed up > in the server side authorizable resource: eg. the char "ü" becomes "ü". it > looks to me like the servlet interprets the incoming data as single-byte > latin-1, while it is in fact utf-8. > > I am quite sure this happens in the servlet: I made the form explicitly > submit "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8", and looking at > the wireshark, thats whats happening. While two bytes go to the server, the > value returned later is four bytes... > > Would you please look into this issue? Accented chars are not a problem with > nodes in other paths of jcr/sling.
Hi Peter, You can try with a hidden field of the name "_charset_" containing the encoding in your form. Have a look at this [1]. Regards, Juanjo. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/sling/site/request-parameters.html
