[xwiki-users] Special characters in titles - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

22 Aug 2016

Hi,

We have a problem with special characters like ÖÄÜ in page titles since some time.

I’ll try to explain our problem:

The browser address line is if you want to create a new page (Übeltäter is the title):

“…/xwiki/bin/edit/MBS/MBS-Members/MKL/Übeltäter/WebHome?template=&parent=MBS.MBS-Members.MKL.WebHome&title=Übeltäter”

This results in a document with the following title: Ã?beltÃ¤ter (the browser shows a more
weired title...)

The xwiki address of the document is still correct: 

“…/xwiki/bin/view/MBS/MBS-Members/MKL/Übeltäter/”

if you now create a document like this:

“…/xwiki/bin/view/MBS/MBS-Members/MKL/Übeltäter/Übung/” (which gets the title: Ã?bung)

The document is not shown as a child of the above but you can show the document if you
enter the address in the browser directly and you are also able to find  it via search..

No other problems so far when using these characters within the documents.
We didn’t had this problems in beginning. I had checked a backup of the system which is a
few months old (Version 7.4.2) – no problems here 

We are running Xwiki Version 7.4.4., OS is Ubuntu Linux 14.04.5 LTS, with UTF-8 support..

The Xwiki parameters have not been changed between the backup and the current system
except for installation of the JIRA API and patches for the OS. .

I hope I was able to explain our problem precisely enough.

Any help is appreciated

Regards, Wolfgang