You have to consider 3 different topics: - encoding of generated java files This is defined by the file.encoding option of the jvm.
- encoding of the response This is defined by the encoding tag of the jsp or by explicitly setting the encoding in the response - encoding of the request This is defined by explicitly setting the encoding for the request. > -----Original Message----- > From: Evgeny Gesin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:27 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Internationalization problem > > > Some sources say to set in catalina.sh > JAVA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding="UTF8" > > What is relation of that parameter and Web/JSP/i18n ? > > Evgeny Gesin > Javadesk > > --- "STOCKHOLM, Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > é is "é" in UTF-8. > > It means that your browser is returning UTF-8, and > > your servlet/JSP > > is expecting ISO-8859-1. > > Check how your JSP is configured to handle the > > character set. > > To use UTF-8 in your JSP : > > <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" > > pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> > > and make sure that the charset in your JSP/HTML is > > defined as UTF-8 : > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > > charset=UTF-8"> > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Jonathan Abramsohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Envoyé : mardi 2 mars 2004 11:48 > > À : Tomcat Users List > > Objet : Internationalization problem > > > > > > > > I have problem with French special characters, like > > e with "accent" (é), > > When I get this character from user input, tomcat > > gets it as: é. > > Although I didn't check this in other languages I > > presume the same problems should also occur in > > German and Spanish and probably other languages. > > I'm working with tomcat 4.0.1 on Linux RH 9.0 > > Anyone knows how to solve this? > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what you're looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]