[OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-05 Thread Alexander Schatten
I develop certain Cocoon webapps on a Powerbook with recent cocoon version; up to now with same config like on Redhat Linux and no problems also iso-8859-1 (german) encoding worked fine: environment variable LANG is set to de... yesterday I worked on an application on the powerbook and suddenly

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-05 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Vendredi, 5 mars 2004, à 16:22 Europe/Zurich, Alexander Schatten a écrit : ...Has anyone an idea, how I could fix this encoding problem on OS X ? Most probably, you need to make sure the JVM is started with the correct encoding definition, like "-Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1" -Bertrand

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-05 Thread Alexander Schatten
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le Vendredi, 5 mars 2004, à 16:22 Europe/Zurich, Alexander Schatten a écrit : ...Has anyone an idea, how I could fix this encoding problem on OS X ? Most probably, you need to make sure the JVM is started with the correct encoding definition, like "-Dfile.encoding=i

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-05 Thread Alexander Schatten
Alexander Schatten wrote: JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1' I read the Sun documentation now, and extended this to: -Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1 -Duser.language=de -Duser.country=DE -Duser.variant=MAC additionally, -- the LANG=de_DE.iso-8859-1 -- the two encoding init params in web.xml

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-05 Thread Jorg Heymans
are you sure these java options are actually used when your servlet container starts up? Do an echo $JAVA_OPTIONS just before the statement you think gets exec'ed to start the container. Alexander Schatten wrote: Alexander Schatten wrote: JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1' I read the S

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-05 Thread teru kohama
I use Jetty. java -Xmx256M -Xms128M -Xss128K -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml Then it works fine. teru - Original Message - From: "Jorg Heymans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:34 AM Subject: Re: [

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-06 Thread Stephen Winnall
I had a similar problem storing German text in a Postgresql database under Mac OS X. I discovered that 1) Java stored data in the database in UTF-8; 2) Java does not necessarily read Strings in the format you would expect. I populated the database from a Microsoft Excel source using a Java prog

RE: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-06 Thread Yves Vindevogel
t: Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?) I had a similar problem storing German text in a Postgresql database under Mac OS X. I discovered that 1) Java stored data in the database in UTF-8; 2) Java does not necessarily read Strings in the format you would expect. I populated the database f

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-06 Thread Alexander Schatten
Yves Vindevogel wrote: My problem (see: Bug in ServerPages Generator ??) could be related to this. If I declare some string in Java within XSP, I have to use unicode for (in my case) french characters. I now experience the same problems with data coming from my database. I think it could also be

RE: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-07 Thread Yves Vindevogel
btw.: what do you mean with mydatabase?charSet=iso-8859-1 dburl. In your configuration of the datasources: I use this to force Postgresql to send my everything in ISO-8859-1. This works under Tomcat / Cocoon 2.0.x on Mac OSX 10.2 (no panther yet on that machine) jdbc:postgresql://myserver/m

RE: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-07 Thread Yves Vindevogel
he same database on the same server, with the same datasource settings. -Original Message- From: Alexander Schatten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 7 maart 2004 2:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?) Yves Vindevogel wrote: >My problem (se

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-07 Thread Alexander Schatten
Yves Vindevogel wrote: jdbc:postgresql://myserver/mydatabase?charSet=iso-8859-1 hm, thank you; did not know this one; looks like a specific postgresql feature, no? will this work on mysql too? thanks alex - To unsubscrib

RE: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-07 Thread Yves Vindevogel
I have no idea at all but, I do think this is jdbc related and not postgres -Original Message- From: Alexander Schatten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 7 maart 2004 17:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?) Yves Vindevogel wrote

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Schatten
Yves Vindevogel wrote: btw.: what do you mean with mydatabase?charSet=iso-8859-1 dburl. In your configuration of the datasources: I use this to force Postgresql to send my everything in ISO-8859-1. This works under Tomcat / Cocoon 2.0.x on Mac OSX 10.2 (no panther yet on that machine) jdbc:pos

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-09 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Mardi, 9 mars 2004, à 10:31 Europe/Zurich, Alexander Schatten a écrit : ...I think I have really set everything that is mentioned in the documentation, the wiki or the mailinglist: -- LANG system variable -- JAVA_OPTIONS on startup -- this encoding in the driver still the öäüÄÖÜ are not tran

RE: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-09 Thread Yves Vindevogel
I really believe now, this is a VM bug, but I am curious, that there seem to be no other OS X user, that have upgraded the Java VM and did not recognize this problem. (again: the application works fine and without problems on Linux). YV: I have the opposite. Running an old VM on my Mac (Jaguar st

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Schatten
Yves Vindevogel wrote: I really believe now, this is a VM bug, but I am curious, that there seem to be no other OS X user, that have upgraded the Java VM and did not recognize this problem. (again: the application works fine and without problems on Linux). YV: I have the opposite. Running an old

RE: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-09 Thread Yves Vindevogel
: Alexander Schatten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 9 maart 2004 12:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?) Yves Vindevogel wrote: >I really believe now, this is a VM bug, but I am curious, that there >seem to be no other OS X user, tha

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Schatten
Yves Vindevogel wrote: Yes, could be I use 1.4.2_03 What I also noticed ... I use swaret to keep my system up-to-date. Swaret wanted me to install XFree86 4.xx to run J2Sdk. I think this is no longer needed (since 1.4), so I did not install it. Could there be a problem there ? really, I

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-26 Thread Yves Vindevogel
Ok, I got my database going again on a different machine. I now use Panther with the JVM that comes with it. I use the driver compiled by postgresql, and have already tested the one from their site. No solution. When I use a basic XSP, with strange chars, it works. So, it's only when I use the

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-27 Thread Stephen Winnall
I run Tomcat 5 under Mac OS X 10.3.3 (and 10.3.2 before that) with no problems. What I have noticed is that it takes Cocoon a long time to start up when Tomcat is (re)started, which might explain your error message. I am using Cocoon 2.1.4. Steve On 26 Mar 2004, at 20:51, Yves Vindevogel wrote

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-27 Thread Yves Vindevogel
Why do you use Tomcat 5 and Cocoon 2.1 together ? Cocoon 2.1.x runs with Jetty here, on both machines. I think the "slow" startup is due to the way Tomcat works, I guess. Anyway, the latest versions of both are not functioning, but maybe I should let it do its thing for 2 minutes. Are you sure

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-27 Thread Stephen Winnall
On 27 Mar 2004, at 12:57, Yves Vindevogel wrote: Why do you use Tomcat 5 and Cocoon 2.1 together ? Cocoon 2.1.x runs with Jetty here, on both machines. I use them because they are the most recent versions, and I have no reason not to use them (i.e. they work). Are you sure you combine both ? I

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-28 Thread Yves Vindevogel
But why do you need them ?? You can startup Cocoon 2.1 with Jetty (cocoon.sh servlet) There's no need for Tomcat On 28 Mar 2004, at 00:46, Stephen Winnall wrote: On 27 Mar 2004, at 12:57, Yves Vindevogel wrote: Why do you use Tomcat 5 and Cocoon 2.1 together ? Cocoon 2.1.x runs with Jetty h

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-28 Thread Stephen Winnall
On 28 Mar 2004, at 12:39, Yves Vindevogel wrote: But why do you need them ?? You can startup Cocoon 2.1 with Jetty (cocoon.sh servlet) There's no need for Tomcat Ah...! No good reason really: I first used Tomcat when it was version 1.x and haven't had any reason to change. And since I am more

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-28 Thread Yves Vindevogel
I see could you please tell me how to setup Tomcat 5 so that it works with Cocoon 2.1. Or a document on line ? This way, I could set up that solution and test if my problem is Jetty related. Because ... all my previous installations were on Tomcat. Might be Jetty related ... If Alexander Sc

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-28 Thread Jorg Heymans
I downloaded Cocoon 2.0.4 (latest from 2.0 series) with VM 1.4 I dropped the cocoon.war in the webapps. Tomcat unpacks it. I try to open the :8080/cocoon folder and I get this error Failed to generate program code (this may happen if you use Xalan in incremental processing mode). Please check log

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-28 Thread Alexander Schatten
Yves Vindevogel wrote: I see could you please tell me how to setup Tomcat 5 so that it works with Cocoon 2.1. Or a document on line ? This way, I could set up that solution and test if my problem is Jetty related. Because ... all my previous installations were on Tomcat. Might be Jetty rela

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-29 Thread Stephen Winnall
I am not aware of having done anything special to install Tomcat under Mac OS X. As far as I recall, I downloaded jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16.tar.gz from Apache, expanded it and started Tomcat with the bin/startup.sh which it contains. I built a WAR file from Cocoon with ant, copied it into the webap

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-30 Thread Yves Vindevogel
Alex, I just copied my cocoon directory in a Tomcat 5 installation. The problem persists. So, it's not Jetty related either BUT ... looking into the stacktrace a bit better, i notice this Original Exception: org.apache.avalon.framework.CascadingRuntimeException: Error getting ascii data for

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-30 Thread Yves Vindevogel
Pfff, this is getting so frustrating. I now recompiled my Postgresql, to make sure my initdb had the right encoding (latin1) One simple XSP page, my output still looks like this - - Yves - éèà ç Can anyone please tell me whether this is a bug, a mistake, ... ? Something. Damn, I st

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-30 Thread Yves Vindevogel
Ok, now I installed SQL4J on OSX. The same problem occurs there. So it's not a Cocoon specific error. How can I test if it's my JVM or my DB that is wrong ? For the DB part: I tried to connect through ms Access and everything is okay. For the JVM part: I have it on both Linux as OSX. On 30 Mar

Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?)

2004-03-31 Thread Yves Vindevogel
This article could be a hint why I'm stuck for weeks now. Anybody facing the same thing ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2003-09/msg00189.php On 30 Mar 2004, at 17:43, Yves Vindevogel wrote: Alex, I just copied my cocoon directory in a Tomcat 5 installation. The problem persis