#160; becomes a funny character on error page

[henrik.lindberg]

In web.xml I have made a declaration like this:

<!-- direct 404 errors to nicely formatted page -->
 <error-page>
 <error-code>404</error-code>
 <location>/404.seam</location>
 </error-page>

to display my 404 page instead of the default.

This works fine, but for some reason nbsp characters entered as   are not rendered correctly (they become a diamond with a question mark).

What could cause the page to get confused in this respect?

I am using a URL rewriter (tuckey) to change incoming reuests on the form
../somewhere/12345.xxx to /somewhere.seam?param=12345

When I entered the URL directly (the second form) the error page looks ok for non found identities, but when redirected using tuckey I get the wrong characters...

[henrik.lindberg]

Found out that if I change the encoding in the browser to Cp1252 instead of UTF-8 then the page displays ok.

So, why do I end up with a UTF-8 page that the browser thinks is Cp1252 ?!?

[henrik.lindberg]

Found that if I change the character encoding in my template to "iso-8859-1" the faulty error page shows up correct in all situations.

To fix the problem I will create a separate template for the 404 page using iso-8859-1 and let the other pages have UTF-8.

Curious if anyone has any ideas about the cause of the problem.