grouper export (original version) fails on non ascii chars

Hello everybody,

As suggested in a previous thread, we're migrating from grouper 1.4.2 to grouper 1.5.2 but we're experiencing some difficulties with the -exportxml and -importxml (update method 1).

First of all, there is a problem with the columns creator_id, modifier_id, modify_time and create_time of most tables. Those columns are set to the user who imports the XML and the time of the import.

Is there anything we can do in order to prevent this from happening? (We have 2 types of groups defined by those informations : user created and automatic)

Second point is the XML encoding. As we use grouper in an french context, we could have some accents (example: é, à, ...) which are correctly encoded in an ISO mode ( è => è ) using "StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml" in grouper.
But when we imports the XML, There is no "StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml" so the datas are inserted in the database as recovered (with encoding).
Both databases are UTF-8 encoded.

Is it unknown? or is there a solution?

We'll try to use the second update method but it's far longer than the first one.

Thanks in advance.

Christophe