If this doesn't solve your problem, also try setting the character set of the database to Western European. You will need to set the NLS_LANG parameter for it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Augustin, Priscilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Special characters- how to handle them? > try setting the charset to ISO-8859-1 > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > -Priscilla > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anoop Kumar V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Special characters- how to handle them? > > > Hi, > > We have an application made using jsp, servlets and beans. Recently we > noticed some text with special characters does not show up properly. > What we are doing is - populate a textbox with data that is served from > an oracle database. The data looks fine on a normal html page but we > noticed that the data has been corrupted in the textbox. > > Here is some french characters that show up as '&' > > est restraint aux societes d'assurance et aux intermediaires et en > acceptant ces termes et conditions, vous declarez que vous êtes ou > représentez une société d'assurance ou un > intermédiaire d'assurances dûment autorisé. Veuillez > noter que l'information que vous > > Can somebody please guide me how to solve this problem. > We use ATG Dynamo as application server with iPlanet as web server. > > -Anoop > > ==========================================================================To > unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com