I am using freemarker as the templating engine for hippo cms. I pretty much followed http://www.onehippo.org/library/concepts/web-application/enabling-freemarker-template-support.html Unfortunately all forms are having encoding problems.
On How to set content-type in Freemarker views when using Spring MVC? I double checked my utf-8 configuration again. German Umlauts still appear as jibberish in the request parameters (debugged in the spring CharacterEncodingFilter).
Changing the charset of the form to the following works.
<form action="${actionLink}" method="post" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">...</form>
This means that something in hippo is still configured working with ISO-8859-1 I guess.