Hmmm.. I wonder if this issue is related to my problems in JRA-8371. I am running Weblogic as well (8.1 SP2) , and when I switch user preference locale to French, the accented characters as "?"

I think the problems are related. We will look into the problem.

Thanks,
Anton

I have changed this to be fixed for JIRA 3.5 but I have attached the jar that should fix this for JIRA 3.4.x as well. The problem was in the encoding filter and the way that it was interacting with sitemesh and weblogic. The trouble was that character set was being reset to the default ISO-8859-1 when the conent type was being set without specifying a charset in the content type string. We now explicitly preserve the original charset when setting the content type from the encoding filter. As a result of this, you no longer need to specify the block:

<weblogic-web-app>
            <jsp-descriptor>
              <jsp-param>
                <param-name>encoding</param-name>
                <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
              </jsp-param>
              <jsp-param>
                <param-name>compilerSupportsEncoding</param-name>
                <param-value>false</param-value>
              </jsp-param>
            </jsp-descriptor>
          </weblogic-web-app>

in your weblogic.xml file.