"J. Patterson Waltz III" <pattersonw 'at' hotmail.com> writes:
> Hello, > > I recently upgraded a J2EE/Struts web application I'm working on to the > 1.2.4 version of Struts, and ever since I made this change, I've been > encountering a problem with the encoding of non-ascii character data > submitted in forms. All my pages are set to use UTF-8 encoding (via a <%@ > page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" > language="java" %> directive in my master Tiles layout), and this worked > fine with Struts 1.1, with respect to data submission and display. However, > since I upgraded to 1.2.4, data entered is now stored and redisplayed in its > "encoded" form rather than its decoded form: i.e. été becomes été Most probably the browser is sending data in UTF-8 but doesn't say so with charset= in the Content-Type header. If you're confident enough that the browsers will send UTF-8 (which should be the case if they are encoded in UTF-8 and you use accept-charset in the forms), you can use a filter which forces the HTTP request to be seen as UTF-8 in input (for example filters/SetCharacterEncodingFilter which is bundled with tomcat)[1]. Note: if you also use GET parameters encoded in UTF-8, with tomcat-5 you have to set `useBodyEncodingForURI="true"' in the Connector or else tomcat will always consider it ISO-8859-1 (or you can force the URI to be always decoded as UTF-8, but I think this is more elegant and versatile that way). Ref: [1] this is very surprising, I can't seem to be able to find stuff in struts archives... for example, searching gmane archives with google with "struts SetCharacterEncodingFilter site:gmane.org", I get only one answer; however, I verified that archives can be accessed on gmane by clicks only (no form post), so google should crawl them I guess. the search on gmane itself is extremely slow but gives answers. then, searching marc.theaimsgroup.com has similar errors with google: 0 answer from google, however articles are also available by clicks, no form post needed. and then it's even worse, searching for SetCharacterEncodingFilter seems to trigger a bug in their search engine, no answer is shown, only the list of all archives sorted by month -- Guillaume Cottenceau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
