I think the correct syntax would be: JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=8859_1"
The quotes aren't really important, but the -D is. If that was just a typo in your message, then I'm not really sure what the problem is. But if that was actually what's in your script, it won't have the effect of setting a system property in Java unless the -D is there. (I really don't know anything about the file.encoding property in particular, or it's behavior, so I can't help you there.) On 3/17/02 4:03 AM, "Steven Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is off topic but I know there are OSX, Tomcat users here who > may be able to shed some light on my problem. > > The problem has to do with ASCII characters >128 for locale character > support such as tilde, circumflex, etc. while running Tomcat (4.0.3) on > MacOS 10.1.3 w/ java version 1.3.1 > > I have set my JAVA_OPTS env variable to file.encoding=8859_1 but am still > having problems with ResultSet values which continue to be MacRoman > decoding of 8859_1 chars. > > I am accessing a MSSQL running on Windows 2000 via a JDirect Type 4 driver. > Some of the data has Portuguese and Spanish characters and when I output a > ResultSet returned by Tomcat running on the Windows machine everything looks > correct. When I output the same ResultSet from Tomcat running on the > Macintosh accessing the same database on the Windows machine, I get the > characters MacRoman encoded whether or not I have run the startup.sh from a > terminal with JAVA_OPTS=file.encoding=8859_1. Actually there is NO > difference which seems to indicate that either file.properties is not the > correct system env variable or I am not using JAVA_OPTS correctly? > > So I'm fishing for any ideas of how to fix this problem. If you have any > suggestions please mail me off list as well as I am on the digest. > > Thanks for the help. > > Steven > > //* > * VTV Learning Corporation > * Los Angeles - Boston - Lisbon > * (http://www.vtvLearning.com/) > */ > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Makower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | http://www.davemak.com/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
