My problem was really, that my code was too late. After using a servlet filter and calling request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF8") from the filter, my problem was fixed.
Thank you everybody for the help. Zsolt > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Theodoridis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 5:18 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Working with UTF-8 and problems with German Umlauts > > > I had the same problem in Greeks > The first steep is to follow the instructions below > > http://www.anassina.com/struts/i18n > > ( If the page dos not displays tell me to send u via email ) > > The second step, if u use a database, to retrieve data to work on UTF-8 > so database driver must support it. > > for mySQL below 4.x use > > String dbURL = > "jdbc:mysql://localhost/YellowPages?useUnicode=true&characterEncod > ing=UTF-8" > ; > > i hope to help u > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:31 AM > Subject: Re: Working with UTF-8 and problems with German Umlauts > > > > On 11/03/2003 09:43 PM Zsolt Koppany wrote: > > > I have problems with German Umlauts when I enter the code below to my > jsp > > > pages. The problem is when I for example I forget to fill a required > field > > > and the previous values are restored after validation. > > > > > > How can I fix that? > > > > > > I use tomcat-4.1.24 with struts-1.1. > > > > > > > > > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %> > > > > > > <%request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF8");%> > > > > Hi Zsolt, > > you are setting your character encoding way too late in the game. By the > > point you set it in the JSP as you show above, Struts has already read > > the request parameters into your form. > > > > A common method of setting the character encoding for struts is using a > > filter, so the request is character-encoded before struts gets > to see it. > > > > Adam > > > > > > -- > > struts 1.1 + tomcat 5.0.12 + java 1.4.2 > > Linux 2.4.20 RH9 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]