look at these bugs bug 23929 bug 25360 bug 25231 bug 25235 bug 22666 bug 24557 bug 24345 bug 25848
some keywords I could think of are: setCharacterEncoding international characters not latin characters special characters GET method
It is difficult to find a good question in FAQ for this issue. As this a tomcat FAQ (and not a general servert/jsp FAQ) I suppose that everyone is trying to use the setCharacterEncoding method, which will not work. So the FAQ question could be
setCharacterEncoding() does not work for GET method
regards
Stefanos
Tim Funk wrote:
Since this seems a rather populate bug topic ... I'd like to add this to the FAQ. Besides linking to this bug report, can anyone provide me:
1) A suggested wording for how to phrase this as a question
2) A suggested wording for the answer (I can figure this out)
3) Any other links (to the archives, or other bug reports) that might help any users looking at this.
-Tim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23929
request.setCharacterEncoding(String) doesn't work
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-01-14 13:03 -------
From Mark:
Character encoding has been the source of quite a bit of debate on the tomcat-
dev list in recent weeks. There have been a few changes (see summary below) as a result. Essentially some additional configuration options have been provided. The UTF-8 issue (also reported in bug 22666) has also been fixed.
Character encoding summary ==========================
There are a number of situations where there may be a requirement to use non-
US ASCII characters in a URI. These include:
- Parameters in the query string
- Servlet paths
There is a standard for encoding URIs (http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-
code.html) but this standard is not consistently followed by clients. This causes a number of problems.
The functionality provided by Tomcat (4 and 5) to handle this less than ideal situation is described below.
1. The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a useBodyEncodingForURI attribute which if set to true will use the request body encoding to decode the URI query parameters.
- The default value is true for TC4 (breaks spec but gives consistent behaviour across TC4 versions)
- The default value is false for TC5 (spec compliant but there may be migration issues for some apps)
2. The Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector has a URIEncoding attribute which defaults to ISO-8859-1.
3. The parameters class (o.a.t.u.http.Parameters) has a QueryStringEncoding field which defaults to the URIEncoding. It must be set before the parameters are parsed to have an effect.
Things to note regarding the servlet API:
1. HttpServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding() normally only applies to the request body NOT the URI.
2. HttpServletRequest.getPathInfo() is decoded by the web container.
3. HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() is not decoded by container.
Other tips:
1. Use POST with forms to return parameters as the parameters are then part of the request body.
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