AW: [opencms-dev] Umlaut character problems

["Bührle, Martin, FCI1"]

Hi List,


we had to fight against similar problems on SuSE Linux 7.3 / 8.1 / 8.2
professional with
- Sun JDK 1.4.2_01 for Linux  (j2sdk_1_4_2_01-linux-i586.bin)  
- Tomcat 4.1.24 or Tomcat 4.1.27

After several tests we came to the result that first of all You will need
the rpm-paket
"glibc_locale"
for linux installed. 
On the SuSE "Minimal System" You won't get this rpm. That was the first
problem we had to solve.

Anyway we still got "umlaute"-errors after installing this rpm-package on
our test-system.
In all our tests we didnt change anything with the code of opencms, just
played around with combinations of
- "-Dfile.encoding=xxx" in the Tomcat-environment  and
- "defaultContentEncoding=xxx" in the opencms.properties-file
We set them always to the same string, because OpenCms doesnt start
otherwise (see the other articles on the list).


What we figured out  with our test-environment is that after installing the
rpm above
  ISO-8859-1 is not working for the "Umlauts" ü and ä (only problems with
lower case);
                   in some environments (not 100% reproducible) it works
when You get the "?" as an error first
                   and You set the correct string again  (rename/change)
afterwards the second time.
  ISO-8859-15 is working
  UTF-8 is working best (shows even the "Umlaute" You entered under
"ISO-8859-xx"-conditions before)

Hope that helps. Maybe the opencms-community can fix this on the way to the
next release.


Best regards
 Martin Buehrle

_________________________________________________________________________
Martin Buehrle
EADS - European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
Telefax: +49 89 3179-8927
eMail: Martin.Buehrle at lfk.eads.net
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Mark Miller [SMTP:mark.miller at hema.ch]
> Gesendet am:	Montag, 15. September 2003 10:26
> An:	opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Betreff:	AW: [opencms-dev] Umlaut character problems
> 
> One work around would be to use the html codes
> 
> eg:
> 
> ö = ö or Ö
> ü = ü or Ü
> ä = ä or Ä
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von A. Schirmacher
> Gesendet: 15 September 2003 10:11
> An: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Betreff: [opencms-dev] Umlaut character problems
> 
> I am using OpenCMS 5.0 in its default configuration:
> 
> The opencms.properties file has an entry:
> 
> defaultContentEncoding=ISO-8859-1
> 
> and I have a shell variable
> 
> CATALINA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1
> 
> When I create a new page and I use umlaut (äöüß)
> characters for the Title of the page or for the
> navigation string, the title is displayed with a
> question mark in the explorer view, and the navigation
> string is displayed with a question mark at all web
> pages. The question mark is of course where the umlaut
> character was.
> 
> The body text however displays umlaut characters
> correctly. 
> 
> What is going wrong here? Please advise.
> 
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