Paul , I added the fllowing line to catalina.sh and restarted the server ,but this does not seem to help.
JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" Regards Sujatha On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: > If you have the option, try setting the default charset of the > servlet-container to utf-8. > Typically this is done by setting a system property on startup. > > My experience has been that the default used to be utf-8 but it is less and > less and sometimes in a surprising way! > > paul > > > Le 16 juil. 2011 à 05:34, Sujatha Arun a écrit : > > > It works fine with GET method ,but I am wondering why it does not with > POST > > method. > > > > 2011/7/15 pankaj bhatt <panbh...@gmail.com> > > > >> Hi Arun, > >> This looks like an Encoding issue to me. > >> Can you change your browser settinsg to UTF-8 and hit the search > url > >> via GET method. > >> > >> We faced the similar problem with chienese,korean languages, this > >> solved the problem. > >> > >> / Pankaj Bhatt. > >> > >> 2011/7/15 Sujatha Arun <suja.a...@gmail.com> > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> We have implemented solr search in several languages .Intially we used > >> the > >>> "GET" method for querying ,but later moved to "POST" method to > >> accomodate > >>> lengthy queries . > >>> > >>> When we moved form GET TO POSt method ,the german characteres could no > >>> longer be searched and I had to use the fucntion utf8_decode in my > >>> application for the search to work for german characters. > >>> > >>> Currently I am doing this while quering using the POST method ,we are > >>> using > >>> the standard Request Handler > >>> > >>> > >>> $this->_queryterm=iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE", > >>> $this->_queryterm); > >>> > >>> > >>> This makes the query work for german characters and other languages but > >>> does > >>> not work for certain charactes in Lithuvanian and spanish.Example: > >>> *Not working > >>> > >>> - *Iš > >>> - Estremadūros > >>> - sNaująjį > >>> - MEDŽIAGOTYRA > >>> - MEDŽIAGOS > >>> - taškuose > >>> > >>> *Working > >>> > >>> - *garbę > >>> - ieškoti > >>> - ispanų > >>> > >>> Any ideas /input ? > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> Sujatha > >>> > >> > >