Well to answer my own question: The source of the problem was found. A compression filter (gzipping the response) seems to have been the culprit.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Seyed Razavi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 December 2003 17:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Character encoding issue > > > Howdy, > > I've got a strange problem with character encoding German > characters. I'm using iso-8859-1. The app is running on JDK > 1.4.2, Jboss 3.2 w/ Tomcat and using Struts 1.1. > > The application works fine on local Windows machine and on a > Red Hat system. > > However, when moved to a Debian system it behaves strangely > ONLY when accessing Action mappings NOT when accessing JSPs directly. > > Accessing a JSP directly shows all messages properly > displayed but accessing it via an Action class (through an > ActionForward) shows all German characters as ?. > > The HTML encoding is properly set and all JSP include: > > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"%> > <%@ page pageEncoding="iso-8859-1"%> > > I've set the following in the run.sh for Jboss in case it's a system > issue: > > export LANG=german > export LC_ALL=de_DE > > I don't think it is a system issue because as I said, all JSP > when accessed directly respond properly. The resource bundle > is also iso-8859-1 encoded. > > I'm also setting the Locale on each request to "de" (using > the Action class setLocale method) just in case. The output > from the action servlet seem to have the correct content-type > according to Netscape. > > Anybody help? > > Cheers, > > Seyed > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
