We're working on a multilingual site, so some of the folder names have special characters, like umlats over letters, such as ä.

The OS is CentOS linux, and we're running CF8.

The folder names on the server appear just fine.  The link on the coldfusion page looks right in the status bar when hovering over it with a mouse, but clicking on it throws a file not found error and the link is shown garbled at the special character point.

Example - this link: /de/de/allgemeine-geschäftsbedingungen/

Comes out like this:

If I change the link to point to a .html file instead of a .cfm file - it works fine. So the webserver/file system are handling the characters ok. It's only when the links are processed through coldfusion that they go wrong.

The CF admin settings summary shows that it's using UTF8 encoding, which seems correct.

I'm lost as to what it will take to get these links to work properly without getting mangled.