> 
> and when i submit this form, if i put in the textbox one value with a
> tilde, the value submited is like  conclusão and i want conclusão.

They are the same word, one encoded in utf8 and the other encoded in
latin1 (iso-8859-1)

You either want to force latin1 output by having xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1"
or you want to declare the page hosting your form to be in utf8 .

David

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