[xwiki-users] Displaying annotations messes up German Umlaute in page content - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

22 Mar 2013

We have an xwiki instance running in tomcat. As database we use mysql.

We followed strictly the install instructions from

   http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationTomcat

and

   http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Encoding

The database collation is UTF-8. In all the other files (web.xml, 
server.xml, mysql.cfg and hibernate.cfg.xml) the correct encoding 
(UTF-8) is defined.

The HTML Header of the page has also the correct encoding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="de"
xml:lang="de">
   <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"/>
   ...

However when displaying annotations all German Umlaute in the page are 
messed up.

Bernhard Hopf already submited a Jira issue for this problem, however it 
has been marked as "Unresolved".

http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-5913

Has anyone a solution for this problem.

   Richard