Just Jetty on the server. Maven/Jetty while developing. (I'm not that
dumb.) :-)
Chas.
Timothy Perrett wrote:
> I agree - it does seem like we should really be doing this by
> default.
>
> Even chinese, hebrew and double byte languages will be good using
> UTF-8 right? Is there a reason someone might want to set it to another
> encoding / collation other than UTF-8? I cant think of one right
> now...
>
> @chas - from your previous post, are you saying your using maven on
> the server for production?! or did you just mean jetty...?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
> On Mar 16, 4:23 am, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Argh. I even thought of that but setting it *after* the request had been
>> accessed (by Lift internals) appears to have no effect. I suppose there's
>> some caching going on there. Any possibility we could add a control to
>> LiftRules? Something like:
>>
>> var totallyBrokenDefaultPostCharsetHandling = false
>>
>> Where a false value means we automatically set the request charset to UTF-8
>> and a true value means that we don't touch the request. My expectation given
>> that we're already 9 years into the new millenium (yeah, yeah, only 8) is
>> that *everything* on the net would be UTF-8 unless explicitly forced to be
>> something else.
>>
>> Derek
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:34 PM, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com
>>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com> wrote:
>>>> That's got it. I added it to the FAQ on the wiki.
>>>> Thanks, David! Wish I'd been smart enough to ask this a week ago!
>>> I bloodies my head with that one for a good couple of weeks. Glad it's
>>> working.
>>>> Chas.
>>>> David Pollak wrote:
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>> Please make sure you've got this method in your Boot.scala class:
>>>>> /**
>>>>> * Force the request to be UTF-8
>>>>> */
>>>>> private def makeUtf8(req: HttpServletRequest) {
>>>>> req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8")
>>>>> }
>>>>> And also in the boot method, put:
>>>>> LiftRules.early.append(makeUtf8)
>>>>> By default, various app servers (Tomcat is the worst) does not use
>>>>> UTF-8... I mean WTF... the web is UTF unless otherwise specified.
>>>>> Anyway... please give that a try and let me know if it works.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> David
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Derek Chen-Becker
>>>>> <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> OK, I can replicate this in our PocketChange app (also going against
>>>>> a PostgreSQL DB). Let me dig a bit.
>>>>> Derek
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com
>>>>> <mailto:c...@munat.com>> wrote:
>>>>> This might help, but I don't think I was clear. I have an online
>>>>> form.
>>>>> My clients enter text into it. Their text has characters like a
>>>>> c with a
>>>>> cedilla. That text gets saved into a PostgreSQL database (UTF-8)
>>>>> varchar
>>>>> field via JPA/Hibernate.
>>>>> Then I pull it back out and dump it into a template, and it
>>>>> comes out
>>>>> gibberish. If I try using ç instead, I get &cedil;
>>>>> back out.
>>>>> Here is what I have:
>>>>> "name" -> SHtml.text(thing.name <http://thing.name>, thing.name
>>>>> <http://thing.name> = _, ("size", "40"))
>>>>> If I enter "cachaça" in the field, I get cachaça back out. The
>>>>> weird
>>>>> thing is that sometimes when I copy and paste text from another
>>>>> document
>>>>> into the form, it works. But if I use the keyboard, it fails
>>>>> every time.
>>>>> I'll play around with this. Thanks.
>>>>> Chas.
>>>>> Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
>>>>> > Oops, forgot scala.xml.Unparsed, too:
>>>>> > scala> val m = <span>a{ scala.xml.Unparsed("ç")
>>>> }b</span>
>>>>> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
>>>>> > That one might be what you're looking for.
>>>>> > Derek
>>>>> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Derek Chen-Becker
>>>>> > <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>
>>>>> <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > I think it depends on how you're embedding them in the
>>>> XML:
>>>>> > scala> val m = <span>açb</span>
>>>>> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
>>>>> > scala> val m = <span>a{"ç"}b</span>
>>>>> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>a&ccedil;b</span>
>>>>> > scala> val m = <span>a{"ç"}b</span>
>>>>> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
>>>>> > That last one was input using dead keys (alt+,) on my
>>>>> linux (USA
>>>>> > International with dead keys) layout. Let me know if this
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> > help; if not, could you send the code/template that's
>>>>> having issues?
>>>>> > Derek
>>>>> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Charles F. Munat
>>>>> <c...@munat.com <mailto:c...@munat.com>
>>>>> > <mailto:c...@munat.com <mailto:c...@munat.com>>> wrote:
>>>>> > I have a site that uses a lot of "special" characters
>>>>> (a remarkably
>>>>> > biased description, since there is nothing "special"
>>>>> about accented
>>>>> > characters to the people who use them daily). In
>>>>> particular, I
>>>>> > need the
>>>>> > c with cedilla and the n with the tilde.
>>>>> > These characters are being input to a database
>>>>> (UTF-8) via an online
>>>>> > form, then spit back out onto the page.
>>>>> > It's a fucking disaster. Apparently, everything goes
>>>>> through the xml
>>>>> > parser, which is great, except when I try to enter
>>>>> these as entity
>>>>> > references, such as ç, the parser changes & to
>>>>> & and
>>>>> > I get
>>>>> > the literal ç back out again.
>>>>> > When I type ç using the keyboard (or copy and paste
>>>>> it from a
>>>>> > page or a
>>>>> > text editor), I get gibberish.
>>>>> > Anyone know the trick to getting around this? I need
>>>>> everything
>>>>> > from e
>>>>> > acute to e grave to trademark and registered
>>>>> trademark symbols,
>>>>> > and I
>>>>> > need to enter them this way.
>>>>> > Thanks for any help. If I can get this to work, I'll
>>>>> add an
>>>>> > explanation
>>>>> > to the wiki.
>>>>> > Chas.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net
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