RE: Foreing Character encoding from jsp form (Character Encoding doesn't work)

[Evan Child]

What browser are you using to submit the form?

Before you start getting parameters, you need to do a 
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

I couldn't understand from below if you're already doing that. Assuming that
you ultimately want the characters to end up in a utf-8 encoding.

If the browser url-encodes the parameters, (for example if this is an HTTP
GET request), you'll need to get a decoder to decode that and convert it
into regular UTF-8. I have a decoder in java, if you want it.

Thanks,

Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Vanspall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 6:27 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Foreing Character encoding from jsp form (Character Encoding
doesn't work)


HI there,

I am having problem with reading foreign characters from a form.

I am trying to make it do that Chinese characters can be entered.

When I enter them the a received by the request in the form 寇蔆

etc...

I have set the character encoding and filter for UTF-8 in web.xml, I know
that it goes through the filter, but the output is the same. presumably
because it reads each character in as '&' '#' '2' '3' 4' '9' '5' ';', seeing
these character as regular ascii character, it doesn't try to change them

All my pages are set to UTF-8 charcter encoding.

I have altered the filter code myself to intercept the filter and recursive
replace these code.

basically converting the integere one by one into chars.

two problems arise from this.

1. When I then add then string them together using a string buffer/string I
get a string of '??????', this is also how it is entered into the database
(which is set to UTF-8 encoding also)

2. Surely there is a better way to do this.

Can anybody help me here,

Thanks in advance

Steve Vanspall



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