On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 13:34:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Help, > >I have moved an application from one Linux box to another, running >Java > >Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-b24) >Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1-b24, mixed mode) >Redhat7.1 >Apache JServ 1.1.2 >servlet-2.0 >PostgreSQL 7.1.2 > >On my old setup, extended chars (e.g. å, ä and ö) all displayed fine, >but >now they just appear as a ? > >Can somebody advise what I need to change to get these to display >correctly in the servlet generated html page. > >Process is as follows: >Servlet retrieves data from postgres and display it in an html page. >If I have the following in the database table (ausgewählten), it >displays as (ausgew?hlten) >If, I have the following in the table (ausgewählten), it will >display correctly. > >Iam at a loss as to where the problem lies. Encoding in both db's is >SQL_ASCII. Is it Linux, Apache, Java, or Postgres that is producing >this strange scenario? > >Any ideas? TIA > > Simply changed the encoding in the db to LATIN1. Don't know why this worked on other machine - possibly a bug in previous version of Postgres, as encoding in that db was set to SQL_ASCII ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])