yes it will, our application uses tomcat 3.2 with Apache on Linux, and it
works great
Arthur
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Radvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: foriegn characters turn to ? in database
Out of interest, will using "charset=UTF-8" work? (unicode)
James
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James Radvan
Websphere Analyst/Architect
London, UK
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tõnu Põld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12 July 2001 08:32
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: foriegn characters turn to ? in database
Hi,
There are several places where this "?" conversion might happen.
a) If your JSP page output should be in Latin2, then you must have the <%@
page contentType = "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2" %> directive in JSP page.
Else the default encoding (iso-8859-1) is used and the strings are converted
from Latin2 to Latin1. Because some Latin2 charcters are missing in Latin1,
those characters are dispayed as question marks.
b) If your database uses Latin2, then the JDBC draiver might not convert the
charcters to correct java unicode charcters. This may happen because the
JDBC draiver thinks your database uses Latin1 encoding. Make sure the JDBC
draiver supports Latin2. This could be tested by getting some Java String
from database and by comparing the numeric character code with the character
code in unicode table (http://www.unicode.org/charts/). For finding the
numeric character code use:
char c = dbString.charAt(0);
If the JDBC draiver supports only Latin1, then the strings could be
convereted to Latin2 by using something like this:
String s = new String( dbString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "ISO-8859-2");
On most cases the "?" conversion happens when the Java character (16 bit
unicode char) is converted 8-bit character. Please look some Java
tutorial/manual to learn more about the Java Characters/Strings.
Best Regards,
Tõnu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:47 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: foriegn characters turn to ? in database
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I have seen this behavior too.
> I'm using MYSQL 3.23.36 with Latin2 character set as default.
> I can see
> these foreign characters in the database, but they are
> converted to ? on
> the JSP output. Sometimes also the foreign characters that
> are in the JSP
> itself get converted to ?.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Best regards,
> Kovi
>
> P.S.: Using WinNT 4 Service Pack 6, Tomcat 3.3m4
>
> At 22:27 11.7.01 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >Bryan, does your database use foreign character sets?
> >
> > >From: "Bryan Murtha"
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: foriegn characters turn to ? in database
> > >Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:58:53
> > >
> > >Hey All,
> > >
> > >
> > > We are accepting form submissions from users all over the world.
> > >The foriegn characters end up in Sybase looking like a ?. Does
> > >someone
> > >know how to deal with this?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Bryan
> > >
> > >
> > >----Original Message Follows----
> > >From: Stefanos Karasavvidis
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: getServletContext() throws NullPoinetException
> > >Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:46:04 +0300
> > >
> > >I've just installed tomcat 3.2.2 and have the following problem.
> > >
> > >I want to call getServletContext() from a servlets service method
> > >but
> > >get the folowing exception
> > >*Internal Servlet Error:*
> > >
> > >java.lang.NullPointerException
> > > at
> >
> >javax.servlet.GenericServlet.getServletContext(GenericServlet
.java:205)
> > > at TestServlet.service(TestServlet.java:32)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrappe
r.java:405)
> > > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.
java:372)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(Context
Manager.java
> > :797)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.
> java:743)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.pr
> ocessConnect
> > ion(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoi
nt.java:416)
> > > at
> >
> >org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadP
ool.java:501)
> > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
> > >
> > >
> > >Moreover the getServletConfig() returns null which is probably the
> > >main
> > >reason for this problem
> > >
> > >Any ideas??
> > >
> > >Stefanos
> > >
> > >
> > >
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