Hi, Happened to be looking at this site today, don't know if this is of any help, but the full description of the euro char set is ISO8859_15_FDIS
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch03s03.html -----Original Message----- From: Nance, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 May 2002 23:50 To: 'Tomcat Users List' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Tomcat and Java Locale Drew thanks for the reply. I tried changing the file encoding to UTF-8 and I still don't get the Euro Basically I am creating a form like this </td></tr> <tr> <td> Message: <input type="text" name="msg" size="80" value="special chars é â ä à ë è ï - euro symbol (EUR) - British pound £" maxlength="2000"> </td></tr> <tr><td> Then when the form is submitted I print it back out to the JSP itself first with HTML and a system..out.println. In the HTML all characters print correctln.. in the system.out The Euro does not print. We are running on a Solaris box with Weblogic and Tomat and my Browser is on a Windows NT machine (In US, Ca) . Actualy when I changed to UTF-8 the characters came out as Chineese characters.. Without the file encoding the system.outs would come up as all ?'s with it as UTF-8 they are all wrong. I got this from View Page Info Form 1: Action URL: http://columbus/AmailTest.jsp Encoding: application/x-www-form-urlencoded (default) Method: Get Form 2: Action URL: http://columbus/AmailTest.jsp Encoding: application/x-www-form-urlencoded (default) Method: Get File MIME Type: text/html Source: Currently in disk cache Local cache file: M0DB68LH.JSP Last Modified: Unknown Last Modified: Unknown Content Length: 17288 Expires: No date given Charset: UTF-8 Security: This is an insecure document that is not encrypted and offers no security protection Thanks again for Replying.. I am really stuck -----Original Message----- From: Drew Sudell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:33 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Tomcat and Java Locale Nance, Michael writes: > I am trying to solve a problem we are having with Non-ASCII characters and > the Euro. > > First I am starting tomcat with -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1 in out java > startup. > > However if I do something like this > > Locale localeTest = new Locale("de","de", "Euro"); > NumberFormat nfTest = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(localeTest); > <tr> > <td>Test</td> > <td><%=nfTest.format(55555)%></td> > </tr> > </table> > > > I get his result from My Jsp > Test > ? 55.555,00 > I do do a system.out of non Asii Characters such as é â ä à ë è ï - euro > symbol (EUR) - British pound £ > and All print except for the Euro (EUR) but if I echo it to the browser it > prints fine. > We are on Unix Boxes with Solaris 7 > > Is there something else I am missing.... > Well for one, there is no Euro in ISO 8859-1. The major difference between Latin 1 (8859-1) and Latin 9 (8859-15) aka Latin 0 is that the latter has a Euro were the Universal Currency Symbol is in Latin 1 (0xA4). You mention that the Euro prints fine when you "echo it to the browser". I'm not sure what that means, but how do you echo it and is the browser running on a windows box by any chance? The western encoding on windows is not exactly Latin anything. It's CP1252, which is Latin1, with some extra characters in the second control set from 0x80 to 0x9F. Guess where they stuck the Euro? Yep somewhere everyone else expects a control character (0x80). No reasonable software running on Solaris will think that's a Euro, or even printable. But if you shove the bits back to a Windows box, you'll see a Euro. A good rundown of ISO 8859 is at http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html You might try using 8859-15, or perhaps cp1252 if you are only supporting browsers on windows. Note you'll need to update the content type in the page directive of the JSP. By default it's 8859-1 and all character data is transcoded to that. In which case I'd expect you to get '?'s instead of Euros. Since you're getting the Currency Symbol from the system, I'd expect you to be getting a proper UCS2 Euro (\u20ac) in any case -- ie I suspect the default file encoding doesn't make a difference. But the encoding of the JSP output sure will. Another strategy is to output UTF-8. Again, the trick is likely to be setting the JSP encoding/content-type. If that doesn't work. Let me know o what you do see when use the above example o what the content type in the page directive is (if any) o what environment/locale you are viewing this in (ie where is the browser) o what the browser thinks it got back (eg what encoding is it trying to display, what did it think the content type was. for netscape do View-Page Info. 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