Hey Roy, I think you might want to read up on how the JSTL handles different languages etc. What I'm seeing is that you use formatDate with a pattern while you're saying that you've got Japanese and English mixed. Check out how to use Locales in JSTL. If you set a Locale using a servlet, fmt:setLocale or some other way, the date is formatted according to the Locale you set (e.g. American English or Japanese).
Now on to your problem, are you saying that the <c:out value="rows.COMPANY"/> is outputting normally without any fmt: tags in the page? If so, there's probably something going on with the fmt tags setting the charset of the response. Normally this isn't always necessary, so there will be no charset set and then the browser will simply assume a charset by looking at the content of your page. I'm not 100% certain but there were some issues with setting the charset of the response. Check the list archives to see if you can come up with something. Martin -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Roy Benjamin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 1 april 2004 3:51 Aan: Tag Libraries Users List Onderwerp: fmt:formatDate -> changes Japanese to ??? Perviously I wrote about using date fmt. I started using this construct to format results comming back from Oracle. <fmt:parseDate var="date" value="${rows.STARTDATE}" pattern="yyyyy-MM-dd kk:mm:ss.SSS"/> <fmt:formatDate value="${date}" pattern="MMM d, yyyy"/> I have Japanese in parts of this page. It displays fine if I do not use JSTL <fmt:formatDate .../> Otherwise it prints only as ????. Looking at the page source, it looks like the <c:out value="rows.COMPANY"/> is outputing ????. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
