Hi Allistair, I am using win2k and your filter with it set to UTF-8 encoding. Indeed I have not been able to set JVM [file.encoding = utf-8]in the catalina.bat yet (my catalina.out doesnt look like your catlina.bat example that you gave me before!). I am going to continue trying setting the encoding because currently my > file.encoding = Cp1252, and I am thinking this is the root of my problems.
But I have now discovered when I view the logfile where all my system.outs goto(catalina.out) as iso-8859-15, I can view the € symbol inside of the logfile . This is not visible when the editor is using utf-8, which is what java will treat this text as. In addition when I use the command request.getCharacterEncoding() i get a null string. Also I have come to the conclusion, that the oracle jdbc string doesnt support passing of character encoding like with sqlserver. I will let you know how I get on when I change the jvm file.encoding. I am pulling my hair now !! regards Ben -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Allistair Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 6. September 2004 12:28 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: Real problem posting &Euro symbol from jsp page, using TC 5.0 Hi Ben, OK, here is my setup. Can you do the same for yours considering the various layers I have drawn below. You did not mention in your post if you are using the request filter servlet to ensure request encoding is set to utf-8. Remember, Tomcat defaults to ISO-8859-1 for inbound requests. I am not sure if it pays attention to the form accept encoding, so be sure to use the filter. Someone else may have a better way or confirm whether form accept-encoding works on forms. I suppose you could test this in your Servlet by printing request.getCharacterEncoding(). This needs to be UTF-8 if all is well. Can you confirm this? ========================================================== Windows 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------- | JVM [file.encoding = utf-8] --------------------------------------------------- | TOMCAT ---------------------------------------------------------- DB | DB URL CHARSET | SERVLET | SERVLET FILTER | JSP ---------------------------------------------------------- Cp1252 | Cp1252 | - | set req. utf-8 | utf-8 ========================================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Bookey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 September 2004 11:19 > To: Tomcat User List > Cc: Allistair Crossley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Real problem posting &Euro symbol from jsp page, using TC 5.0 > > > > Dear TC profis, (allistair and Nikola) > > I have had this problem for a week (aaahhh!), and would > really appreciate > ANY help or pointers to what I may be doing wrong. > > When I post a EUR value from a form from either Netscape 6.0 or > IE 6.0, and do > a system.out.println in my test > servlet there is always something other than the Euro symbol > arriving in my > test servlet. Most often is a ? which indicates the browser-client > is posting using ISO8859-1 > > Please take a look at the simple jsp pages below, which is > using UTF-8. ( in > another test I have also changed all the various > encoding parameters to ISO8859-15, but there is still no Euro > symbol on the > server).! > > PLEASE......................................... WHAT AM I > DOING WRONG ?? > > :-( > > Ben > > '============================================================= > ============== > ====================================================== > <%@ page language="java"%> > <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8"%> > <%@ page pageEncoding="utf-8"%> > <html> > <head> > <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="test page for encoding" > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset='utf-8'> > <title>encoding data test.</title> > </head> > > <body bgcolor="#F3F3F3"> > <br><br><br> > <% > String reqURL = > "/InGeoWebEntryTool/servlet/EncodingValidationServlet"; > String strEncodeTest=""; > %> > <FORM action="<%=reqURL%>" ACCEPTCHARSET='utf-8' method="post"> > <input type="text" name="encodeTest" > value="<%=strEncodeTest%>" size="98"> > <input type="submit" value="update" style="WIDTH: 120px"> > </FORM> > </body> > </html> > > '============================================================= > ============== > =================================================== > Here are some system properties from my server. > > file.encoding = Cp1252 > java.specification.version = 1.4 > catalina.home = D:\Program Files\NetBeans3.6\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19 > java.version = 1.4.2 > sun.cpu.endian = little > sun.io.unicode.encoding = UnicodeLittle > > '============================================================= > ============== > =================================================== > > <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLUE> ------------------------------------------------------- QAS Ltd. Developers of QuickAddress Software <a href="http://www.qas.com";>www.qas.com</a> Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 ------------------------------------------------------- </FONT> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
