I am sorry. It has something to do with struts. Coz if I place my JSP in
examples or tomcat-docs it works fine. Somehow Struts is messing things up.
Or i havent configured things properly.

Affan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: Setting UTF-8 Encoding


> Affan,
>
> The encoding is set just fine. If I copy and paste your JSP, and run it
> here, I get the following as the content type in the HTTP headers:
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>
> You're seeing empty squares where you'd expect characters for a couple of
> reasons:
>
> The Unicode escape for trademark is \u2122, according to the HTML 4.01
spec.
> The raw copyright characters in your document are in ISO-8859-1, not
UTF-8.
>
> If you replace \u0099 by \u2122, it works just fine.
>
> Alternatively, why not use &trade;, &copy;, and &reg; instead?
>
> HTH,
>
> Dan.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Affan Qureshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 31 January 2003 11:38
> > To: Tomcat Users List
> > Subject: Setting UTF-8 Encoding
> >
> >
> > I am having trouble setting the encoding to UTF-8 and hence my
> > web pages are
> > unable to render characters like the Trademark or Copyright symbols. In
> > Tomcat's source at various places teh character encoding is
> > hard-coded to be
> > ISO-8859-1. I have tried to use the filter in the examples to set the
> > encoding type but that did not help and I kept seeing questionamarks for
> > those characters. I have also tried to modify the source and
> > build again but
> > that doesn't work either (I know I must be doing something wrong here.)
> >
> > Somehow tomcat doesn't allow me to change the character encoding to
UTF-8.
> > The same JSPs are looking fine on Weblogic and Resin without any
> > configuration/modification to the server settings.
> >
> > Any ideas how can I fix this ugly problem in my app. The app is unusable
> > without this.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Affan
> >
> >
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