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

Thu Apr 16 17:26:07 CEST 2009

Hi,

you touched some OpenCms JSPs. Are these OpenCms JSPs part from the OpenCms core?

If yes, please download the latest stable OpenCms version from http://www.opencms.org/en/download/ and please install this OpenCms version as a second OpenCms installation.

Can you reproduce your problem in this OpenCms installation?

So you can exclude, that any changes you made in your first OpenCms installation are responsible for your problem.

Kind regards,

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Mario Jäger

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> 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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