Firstly: <bean:write filter="true"> doesn't transform ü into ü it only transforms <, >, & and " into its HTML encoding. You can see that in the source code of org.apache.struts.util.ResponseUtils
Secondly: If you're using charset=ISO-8859-1 your German special characters are only displayed correctly, if your're using a German locale, as far as I remember. Try to use a user with a different locale (english) on the same machine and the display will be messed up. > But when I have text field originally coming from my MySQL database on > that Solaris machine that I want to display with <bean:write> I > encounter problems and receive only "?" in my html source. Yes, if this text is encoded in ISO-8859-1 and your JSPs are told to use UTF-8 or vice versa. So you should use only one character encoding for your browser. > Only <bean:write filter="false" in combination with data fields > containing "abcdüefgätest" works fine. Yes, because this text is fully "ASCII compatible". (there are no special characters) > With <bean:write filter="true"> the & get's converted to & Yes, because [see "firstly"] > I have no idea if this is more a mysql problem than a Tomcat/Struts > issue since my above tests work fine as long as the data is not from db? > Maybe it gets garbled in my database DAO classes already while querying > the db... no idea... As I said: Make sure your text from the DB is encoded in UTF-8, then it will be displayed correctly in a JSP which uses UTF-8. >> I would always use a resource bundle for your texts, no >> matter if you use only German. The special characters in the >> resource bundle could use HTML encoding, so you don't have to >> care about saving the properties files in utf-8. (We do it this way) > I would do it, if i could rely on someone editing those resource bundles > later and using taglibs. But unfortunately I have to use plain html > saved as .jsp whereever possible for latter maintenance of html-only > folks. I think we're talking about two different things, are we? When I say "resource bundle" then I mean the use of the ApplicationResources.properties file. You can't use any taglib in it. But you can write "schön" instead of "schön". That's what I have meant. Is it more clear now? :-) Regards, Bernhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
