[opencms-dev] Charset problems in doument properties

[Patrick Beckmann]

Hello,

my system is running Gentoo 1.4 with the environment variable 
LANG="de_DE at Euro".
Tomcat 4.1.24 is running with he option "-Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-15" 
and OpenCMS 5.0 with option "defaultContentEncoding=ISO-8859-15".
MySQL 3.23.57 is running without command line options.

Problem: There is no chance to save special characters like german 
"Umlaute" or "ß" in the document title or in the other fields of file 
properties. All special chars in those fields are saved as "�". 
Saving "Umlaute" etc. in a document's body makes no problems.


I experimented with setting the encodings to ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. With 
the first one the problems were all the same. With UTF-8 I was unable to 
save "Umlaute" in an document's body.


Question: What has to be done, that document bodies and their 
meta-information fields both can contain special characters?

Greetings,
Patrick Beckmann