No result if body contains special (German) chars - by: Lisa

Hi there,

first of all: we love jifile.

But: We do have a problem here which is to do with umlaut characters (ä, ö, ...) in Word / XLS documents.

Excel: The "body retrieved" contains the HTML representation (like ä) of the special characters - I don't know why.
Word: The "body retrieved" contains some strange squares instead of the special characters.

I tried setting the body field to "text", which gives me a "body stored" with ä etc. displayed correctly. But if I search for a word with a special character which is in the "body stored" I don't get any results in the frontend.

I am using JiFile 1.0.9 on Joomla 2.5.9 on a remote LAMP server.
My configuration and a test file is attached. I tried several configurations (like almost anything, playing around with the encoding settings etc., I also had the body field set to UnStored, UnIndexed and Text), and did a lot of research on the internet, but I found nothing relevant to my problem...

Thanks for any advice!