Thanks!
Why request.getRequest().getCharacterEncoding() returns 'UTF-8'
usually, but sometimes for some pages of portal it returns null?
2007/11/23, Dennis Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Vitaly,
>
> I'm no expert on encoding, but will try to give some suggestions, the
> way I see it :)
>
> If the encoding on the HttpServletRequest is null, Jetspeed will
> retrieve the preferred mediatype (which contains the character encoding)
> via the capabilities map in the database. This is done by getting the
> preferred mimetype for the user agent, and mapping that mimetype to a
> mediatype (= the preffered mediatype). This mediatype contains the
> character encoding, which is set to UTF-8 by default afaik. The
> character encoding contained in this mediatype is used as a fallback, in
> case the encoding is not set on the HttpServletRequest (by the container
> I guess).
>
> See this piece of code in CapabilityValveImpl:
>
> if (encoding == null)
> {
> if (mediaType != null && mediaType.getCharacterSet() != null)
> {
> encoding = mediaType.getCharacterSet();
> }
> }
>
> You can try to use remote debugging to see what's going on in
> CapabilityValveImpl:
>
> * what's the incoming character encoding on the HttpServletRequest? Is
> it null, an empty string or utf-8 ?
> * is the loaded preferred mediatype correct, does it have UTF-8 encoding?
>
> If nothing else works, you can try to set the encoding on the
> HttpServletRequest:
>
> * you can set the default server encoding to UTF-8 in your container
> (Tomcat):
> JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
>
> * If that doesn't work, you can try to set the character encoding with a
> servlet filter, although I have no idea if it is best practice to do so,
> or even possible. Anybody else who knows?
>
> Dennis
>
> Vitaly Baranovsky wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Usually jetspeed returns "text/html;charset=UTF-8" in response. But
> > sometimes after restart of tomcat server it returns just "text/html"
> > for every response till a next restart.
> >
> > I've digged into code and found in method CapabilityValve.invoke next
> > lines of code:
> > ................
> > String encoding = request.getRequest().getCharacterEncoding();
> > ................
> > if (encoding != null)
> > {
> > contentType.append("; charset=" + encoding);
> > }
> > ................
> >
> > So, it looks like request.getRequest().getCharacterEncoding() returns
> > null. Why can it be? How can I correct this error?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
>
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