Here's my problem: I use esql tags inside XSP to generate XML from the Oracle database with UTF-8 encoding. English characters work fine.
Then comes the issue with Japanese characters: 1. every Chinese or Japanese character is encoded in 3 bytes in UTF-8, and stored in the varchar2 column. 2. when I use esql logicsheets to make XML file from Oracle, the XSP is converted into Java file. inside Java I can see that it uses getString() method of ReslutSet object. Unfortunately, getString() returns a String object with three characters per every chinese character. What happens is that Oracle jdbc driver makes one character for every byte in the database. So, the character has empty higher byte, and lower byte is one of the bytes of UTF-8 representation of chinese character. Then Cocoon gets the incorrect String, it puts &#NMUBER; for every character, so XML has totally wrong strings. I couldn't make Oracle to return correct String representation of data in the database. Changing the regional settings is not the option. Now, our Web application (without cocoon) works fine! How come? I'll explain: getString() returns WRONG string with three characters per one chinese. Then JSP page uses out.print() method. This method thinks "I'm English, I see three characters, I have to convert them into English. I'll simply cut upper bytes". So, print throws just three bytes, and they are RIGHT bytes! Then browser sees that the page is UTF-8 encoded, takes three bytes, and shows them as correct ONE chinese character. The question is: what shall I do? 1. If I somehow make getString() to return me correct String, then seemingly my JSPs will break - they will try to print correct character by cutting the upper byte. 2. If I change Cocoon to use something similar to out.print() from JSP, then it may break when somebody changes the regional settings (?). Argyn --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>