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<DIV><SPAN class=215370120-24102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jim,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=215370120-24102003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>the
file encoding controls the binary format in which non ASCII chars are saved.
This applies for example to german umlauts like äöüÄÖüß and all the other funny
characters used in languages around the rest of the world. Fact 1) If you are in
the US or do an english site you don't need to care. Fact 2) Cp1252 is _almost_
identical to ISO-8859-1. It's just the MS windows version of it, and it is
_almost_ binary compatible to ISO. In order to activate Cp1252 for OpenCms you
need to set the -Dfile.encoding parameter for the Java VM and the encoding key
at the end of the opencms.properties. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=215370120-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=215370120-24102003><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Best
Regards,<BR>Alex.<BR><BR>Alexander Kandzior<BR>Alkacon Software - The OpenCms
Experts<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.alkacon.com/"><FONT
face=Arial>http://www.alkacon.com</FONT></A></FONT> </DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=de dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
opencms-dev-admin@opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin@opencms.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Polizzi, Jim<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 24, 2003 6:48
PM<BR><B>To:</B> opencms-dev@opencms.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [opencms-dev]
Issue with file.encoding=ISO-8859-1 with web hosting
company<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to
use openCms to manage a web site that will be hosted on a server at a web
hosting company.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>My concern is that
I will not be able to specify the Tomcat startup options - to specify
-D.file.encoding=ISO8859-1</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I run openCms
on my local machine - I can specify this... but I won't be able to do it on
their machine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tomcat seems to
use Cp1252 as it's default (or at least it does on my machine). Can
openCms work with that?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>If yes -
how?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also - what does
the file.encoding actually DO? What does it effect?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the
help,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=976144416-24102003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Jim</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>