Strange, I have no issues with accents on my system, maybe you should list your setup/settings.

Good thing you had me check back piethein.

I narrowed it to Firefox 13.0.1 (maybe other versions). I tested on Win 7 and Ubuntu 12.04.

I know we also had the same issue with a Mac but I do not have specific version on hand right now.

Worked in Chrome for Win 7 and Ubuntu.

Probably a browser bug. Reopen if you have more evidence and can prove SOGo is the culprit here.

I have noticed that SOGo relies on the AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 directive in the Apache configuration. The Content-Type header natively generated by SOGo is:

Content-Type: text/html

As we use Nginx, we can only remove the header and force it to "text/html; charset=UTF-8". This may break calendars as the mime type will be wrong for those requests.

SOGo should set the charset=UTF-8 sub-header as it is the content generator when accessing the /SOGo path.

Because of this behaviour, SOGo does not set the vacation message correctly sometimes. Because the charset is not declared explicitely, each browser may guess wrong (and differently) as to the real character encoding.

Can you try this SOPE patch:

--- a/sope-appserver/NGObjWeb/SoObjects/SoDefaultRenderer.m
+++ b/sope-appserver/NGObjWeb/SoObjects/SoDefaultRenderer.m
@@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ static int debugOn = 0;
[self debugWithFormat:
@" as component (use appendToResponse:inContext:)"];
}

• [r setHeader:@"text/html" forKey:@"content-type"];
• if ([r contentEncoding] == NSUTF8StringEncoding)
• [r setHeader:@"text/html; charset=utf-8" forKey:@"content-type"];
• else
• [r setHeader:@"text/html" forKey:@"content-type"];

• [_ctx setPage:_c];
  [_ctx enterComponent:_c content:nil];
  [_c appendToResponse:r inContext:_ctx];

Ok, I tried the patch and I could not reproduce the bug with Firefox. When using Firebug or the Chrome tools, I see that "charset=utf-8" is added correctly to text/html documents.

The bug is fixed by the above but you may want to check that the encoding is declared on every text document you send out. For example this path /SOGo/so/USER/Mail/0/mailboxes is a JSON document and the encoding is not declared.

Thanks for the help !

The default encoding for application/json is UTF-8. This is specified in rfc4627.

Fixed: https://github.com/inverse-inc/sope/commit/3a21618d2f4a995688c03344fc70d5b528259a4d