I solved the problem by upgrading to Tomcat 4.1.17 and it allowed me to get everything running in ISO-8859-1 as all I needed was French. I then switched Eclipse into ISO-8859-1 editing mode and everything works fine now.
-----Original Message----- From: Sven Homburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:12 PM To: Adam Greene; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tapestry-developer] Outcome of problem with UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 Hi there, my tip: subclass the ApplicationServlet and insert this method protected void doService(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); super.doService(request, response); } -----Original Message----- From: Adam Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Tapestry-developer] Outcome of problem with UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1 AG> I have managed to figure out how to do UTF-8 for everyting except input AG> boxes. The problem is in this: AG> I input "�tre" into a text field, if I use JavaScript to display the value AG> of the field, it says "�tre". But when it arrives at the server, it is AG> converted to UTF-8, which ends up converting the � into a two byte AG> character, but not the right ones (it is actually a ISO-8859-1 conversion, AG> not a UTF-8. You can see the same effect by switching Eclipse into AG> ISO-8859-1 mode, create an HTML, put in an �, save it and reload it, you AG> great screwed up text. Switch into UTF-8 mode, delete the garbage and AG> re-insert the �, save, reload, everything fine). AG> What I'm wondering is: Does anyone know how to get the result of input AG> fields in UTF-8, encoded properly. I can switch the charset of the page to AG> ISO-8859-1 and have it return proper values, but then the dynamic data will AG> not display properly on the UTF-8 pages (which is the mode I need to edit AG> them in inorder to use Eclipse). AG> ------------------------------------------------------- AG> This SF.NET email is sponsored by: The Best Geek Holiday Gifts! AG> Time is running out! Thinkgeek.com has the coolest gifts for AG> your favorite geek. Let your fingers do the typing. Visit Now. AG> T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ AG> _______________________________________________ AG> Tapestry-developer mailing list AG> [EMAIL PROTECTED] AG> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer -- with best regards homburg Softwaretechnik Sven Homburg Ohlendorfer Stieg 4 21220 Seevetal Tel.: +49-4105-669746 Fax.: +49-4105-668947 WWW.: http://www.hsofttec.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
