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Francois Cournoyer
Francois Cournoyer

Reputation: 174

AEM/CQ5 Request Parameter not UTF-8

Have a slight issue with AEM 6.0 SP1 and the search component. If searching for a french word like "Français" the "ç" gets messed up

the query string is like ?q=Français on the JSP side, request.getCharacterEncoding() returns ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8 like we need.

I know that when under tomcat you can change the URIEncoding at the connector level.

But for an AEM/CQ instance running directly by itself, there is no such thing. Anyone figured this out?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4392

Answers (3)

Satish ch
Satish ch

Reputation: 21

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Need to add the Default charset change as part of response header. Here is the detailed process 

http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr
 -->Apache Sling Main Servlet 
    -->     Additional response headers add the below entry
                 Content-Type=text/html;charset=utf-8

Upvotes: 1

Sharath Madappa
Sharath Madappa

Reputation: 3402

For 5.6.1 : The default encoding can be set in the configuration of Apache Sling Main Servlet . In the Configuration Manager (<domain>:<port>/system/console/configMgr) look for Apache Sling Main Servlet and configure Default Parameter Encoding property.

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For 6.0 (credits - Francois Cournoyer) : The configuration has been moved to Apache Sling Request Parameter Handling

Configure Temporary File Location to point to an absolute path in case of errors while saving the configuration

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Upvotes: 9

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 7068

For forms within CQ always have a hidden field with the charset set to UTF-8 or the charset of your HTML:

<input type="hidden" name="_charset_" value="UTF-8"/>

This will ensure proper encoding when the servlet retrieves the post.

Upvotes: 1

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