Problem rendering Greek and Latin Characters in Tomcat 4.1.18

Joshua Sunil Kumar Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:36:34 -0800

The JSP page that I am using has Greek and Latin Characters. I am unable to display it properly in the browser.

I am fetching data from the a Oracle Database which is stored in UTF-8 . When I display it on the browser this the characters are getting garbled. Ex- GrÃ¸nbÃ¦k

If I change the View-->Encoding--> to UTF-8 then I am able to view it properly as Ex- Grønbæk

1.I am setting the the following META tag

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
But still when I check it up in the browser the encoding setting is ISO-8859-1

2. I have tried setting the response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8"); This also does not work.

3. I have tried putting <%@ page contentType = "text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>. This also does not work.

4. I have changed the setting Tomcat4.1.18 for web.xml file to

<filter>
        <filter-name>Set Character Encoding</filter-name>
        <filter-class>filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

5. I thought there might be a problem with the Apache webserver and then I set this in the httpd.conf file

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 (default is ISO-8859-1)

Having done all the setting still I am unable to the view the characters properly.

I am running Tomcat4.1.18 with Apache2.0.34 using the JK2 Connector on Solaris 5.8.

Code snippet which I have used.

<html>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<%

                Class.forName(driverClassName);
                Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, user, passwo
rd);
                con.setAutoCommit(false);
                Statement stmt=null;
                ResultSet rst=null;
                stmt = con.createStatement();
                String testString=null;

try {

                rst = stmt.executeQuery(queryString);
                }
                catch(SQLException e)   {
                        System.out.println("error while fetching data from old t
able.");
                        System.out.println("Error message: "+e.getMessage());
                        return;
                }

                while(rst.next())
                {
                        testString = rst.getString(1);

out.println("LastNAME "+ testString);

}

%/>

</body>

</html>

7. I have also tried using the String.getBytes("UTF-8); But this also does not work.

I would like to know if any other setting also needs to be made for in addtion to what I have done so that it works.

Joshua Sunil Kumar

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