Definitely some Firefox bugs with UTF8 at least: If I go to the admin screen, and paste in héllo into the query box, then kill Solr and run netcat to see exactly what I get, it's the following:
$ nc -l -p 8983 GET /solr/select/?stylesheet=&q=h%E9llo&version=2.1&start=0&rows=10&indent=on HT TP/1.1 Host: localhost:8983 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20 060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plai n;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/ Cookie: JSESSIONID=3nqupchdew5mh URLs should be percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, or at least UTF-8 bytes. ISO-latin1 isn't acceptable. -Yonik