put an encoding filter in front of your servlet/jsp's that sets a UTF-8 encoding for incoming requests and outgoing responses. its your safest bet for tomcat 4 as far as i remember.
-----Original Message----- From: Yair Zohar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:43 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problems with utf-8 encoding Anto Paul wrote: >On 9/19/05, Yair Zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hello, >>I'm using Tomcat 4.1.18 >>I'm trying to read hebrew data in utf-8 encoding from the database. As a >>check I entered a utf-8 encoded 'alef' letter to the database field. >>(I see it in the database as one letter 'alef'). The jsp page that >>displays the data, prints two chars instead of one. I checked the values >>of these chars and >>they are 215 114, which are the utf-8 combination to create the letter >>'alef' (so I was told). >> >>jps code: >> >><%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" >>pageEncoding="UTF-8" info="Tables Handler" import="tablesHandler.*" %> >> >><jsp:useBean id="tables" scope="page" class="tablesHandler.TableViewer" /> >><jsp:setProperty name="tables" property="*"/> >> >><% request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");%> >> >><html> >> >><head> >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> >></head> >> >> >> > >Move <% request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");%> to before jsp:useBean tag. > > > Thanks for replying, It didn't fix the problem, I still see the same two chars. Yair. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
