[Helma-user] Skin files and character encoding

[Hannes Wallnoefer]

2008/1/10, tobias.schaefer at orf.at <tobias.schaefer at orf.at>:
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> I don't fully understand why this could be related to the runtime, though.

Actually, the possibilities are:

1) the skinCharset property is not properly set/recognised in Helma.
2) The Java VM does decode UTF8 properly despite being told so
3) Somethign is fishy with the UTF8 encoded file written by Eclipse and TextMate

3) is rather implausible, as is 1) if you have skinCharset set to UTF8
or UTF-8, so my guess was 2).

An important question is: Is decoding failing only for the euro sign,
or also for other characters such as umlauts? If umlauts are decoded
correctly the problem is almost definitely not with Helma, but with
Java and Eclipse/TextMate disagreeing on this particular aspect of
UTF-8.

hannes