carte server error with german umlaut - pentaho

I am running the community edition from pentaho with Version 7.1 and i am facing a problem which i can't solve.
I have a transformation where i use german umlaut like ä, ö, ü because i read in text or define text which contains this letters. Nevertheless, in spoon, the transformation is running well, but if i transfer the transformation/job to the carte server, which is running on the same PC, i get the following error from the attachment.
error picture
if i remove every of this letters, the transformation/job on the carte server is also running great.
Does somebody have an idea how to configure the server or enviroment, because i cant remove the letters in the german language.
Thanks, Armin

Have a look on Pentaho Jira PDI-1101.
This was supposed to be fixed since 2008. If it reappeared, make a one step transformation with the problem, and reopen the case.
In the meanwhile, try one of the workaround proposed in the Jira case.

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