On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Peter Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following is a snippet of a link to use a facet: > search-faceted.html?q=[* TO > *]&facet=true&rows=25&fq=name_facet:"Brasseur de > Bourbourg, abb%C3%A9, 1814-1874, former owner"" > > These characters are correctly specified. When it returns, I get an > illegal character error. Examining the XML, I get an fq value of: > name_facet:"Brasseur de Bourbourg, abbÃÂ(c), 1814-1874, former owner"
Is this bad XML part of the responseHeader (parameters that are simply being echoed back)? If so, it's most likely the config on whatever servlet container you are using... you need to configure it to accept UTF-8 URLs rather than latin-1 (Tomcat defaults to the old-style latin-1 AFAIK) -Yonik