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Matthias.Gsottberger at o2.com wrote: Hi!

We have a problem with the encoding of special characters like german umlauts since XWiki Enterprise 1.9.2.22089. In earlier 1.8 versions of xWiki we had no problem with the encoding still you changed the default

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encoding to UTF-8. Our Database Encoding is set to ISO-8859-1 and we cannot change this.

success:

xwiki.cfg: xwiki.encoding = ISO-8859-1

web.xml: <filter> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value> </init-param> </filter>

hibernate.cfg.xml:

<property name="connection.useUnicode">false</property> <property name="connection.characterEncoding">ISO-8859-1</property>

What else should we change to save special characters properly ?

Please check the connection URL, too. The default one contains encoding settings, too:

<property name="connection.url">jdbc: mysql://localhost/xwiki?useServerPrepStmts=false&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&sessionVariables>=sql_mode=''</property

What exactly is the behavior? Do characters end up as two or three characters? Are they replaced by question marks after a while? Do you get an exception when trying to save the document?

-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/

Hi! The behavior was the replacement of the special characters by questions marks. But now it is working... Thank you! Matthias Gsottberger