[opencms-dev] XML Content Editor Not Saving Special Characters Correctly

Thu Apr 16 07:51:25 CEST 2009

Hi 

this sounds strange indeed.
Have you tried to explicitly set the "encoding" file system property of your pages (or their parent folder) to "UTF-8"? 
I don't think that setting the JSP pageEncoding will make any difference because your response encoding is set to UTF-8 already.

Kind Regards
Christian

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with the XML Content editor not saving special
> characters correctly. However, I can save the same characters in the
> same XML file if I use "Edit Control Code". Can anyone help please?
> Details as follows.
> 
> I find that if I save a special character in the XML content editor,
> (in particular the pound "£" character), the XML content editor seems
> to append an extra character so the value stored becomes "Â£".
> 
> I am using OpenCMS 7.0.5 and MySQL 5.1. It appears to me that
> everything on my system is set up for UTF-8.
> 
> The JDBC connection is configured thus:
> db.pool.default.jdbcUrl.params=?characterEncoding\=UTF-8
> 
> In the <head> of the editor page, I see the following metatag:
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> 
> I ran a sniffer on the submit. I see this string in the request header:
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
> And this string in the response header:
> Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
> 
> The *really* strange thing is that if I use "Edit Control Code" to
> edit the same XML file I can save the special characters correctly.
> 
> Saving the special character as a code "£" will only work once
> because the second time I am saving the "£" character again.
> 
> As a temporary workaround, I use "Edit Control Code" to remove the "Â"
> characters.
> 
> Incidentally, a former colleague "skinned" a few OpenCMS JSPs. If
> anyone thinks that might be a problem, I would be interested to know
> which JSPs are associated with the XML Content Editor. I am wondering
> if there should be a tag like this in a JSP somewhere:
> <%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards BrettS
> 
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