thank you for the information. It worked. Another issue is this.
In a JSP page whose charset i have defined as iso-8859-1 (using the meta html tag), i enter arabic words using arabic keyboard (not fonts) into a textfield. The server obtains the correct unicode characters. No problem in that. I had earlier tested with UTF-8 but the server could not retrieve the unicode characters. But certian pages of the application are based on XML-XSL where the majority of the transformation occurs at the client browser if the browser is IE5.x. The problem i face is that even though the xml coming out is in iso-8859-1 charset and the xsl page which is essentailly html also has the meta html tag's charset as iso-8859-1, the server does nto receive the unicode characters and receives some other character when i type in arabic. Why is the browser not sending unicode characters when using xml-xsl, but sends unicode correctly when the page is jsp. I am using tomcat. Does the tomcat's jsp engine do anything to the response or request to enable unicode charset. "Xavier Combelle" To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <xcombelle@ka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ptech.com> cc: Subject: RE: Problem with unicode 10/30/02 06:21 PM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" I think you should use the attribute filter="false" of the write tag which will disable the character filtering by struts. see the following adress for more detailed explaination http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/struts-bean.html#write Xavier > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:MerrilG@;ibsplc.com] > Envoye : mercredi 30 octobre 2002 13:23 > A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Problem with unicode > > > Hi, > Suppose a field in the database has unicode values such as > ش. > > when i use html:text or textarea or for that matter any html > components (using struts tag), i get the correct character. > However if i use the > <bean:write .../> tag > in the output i get the following characters. > > &#1588; as a result of which instead of the expected character i > get ش in the page. > How is it possible to escape the "&" that is coming instead of " > &". > > Do i have to use any response filters to filter out any of the "amp"'s > . It works fine for a simple jsp without the <bean> tag > using the old scriplet method. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: < mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: < mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>