Thanx Laurent, This was the closest reply sofar :-)
The problem is, that I can't really debug, I get data through a web-form and send it via xml to the payment provider. Then I see the result in a web-frontend of the payment provider, but I don't know what they get, neither what they actually store in the db. Meanwhile i stongly suspect, that the problem is on their side, because all other system we exchange data with in UTF-8 don't have similar problems. Or maybe I'm missing some very basic understanding of encoding :-) However, I'll try to contact some other customers of the same provider (hope there are any), and check how they do solve this problem. Thanx to all Regards Leon > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Laurent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Mai 2005 16:40 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: Encoding Problem ISO to UTF-8 > > Leon Rosenberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a small encoding problem, which drives me crazy... > > > > Our complete site is in ISO-8859-1 (which is java-default, as I > > understand it). I mean, the charset of the page is ISO, and > meta-tags > > in HTML are telling the browser that the page is ISO too. > > Now the problem, that I have, is that I have to transmit > some XML data > > to another system (payment provider) which expects it in UTF-8. > > The problem is that customer name can contain Umlauts > (german characters: > > äöü), and they come truncated on the other side: > > > > Like I'm sending "Ümlaut" and the other side gets �mlaut. > > > Well this may not be as simple as the other posts suggested. The "�" > string *is* UTF-8. It is the bytes EF BF BD, the UTF-8 encoded form of > U+FEFF, the Unicode BOM (byte order mask), a.k.a. ZWNBSP > (zero width non > breaking space). > > This should help you see more clearly what exactly is going wrong. > > > > I tried each conversion method I could think of sofar: > > reinitializing the String as new String with reencoding: name = new > > String(name.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8") (in all combinations) > > Instead of that, try using debug messages to print your > string and see if it's right. > > > Using URLDecoder to decode parameters. > > Unrelated to this problem. > > > Using charsetencoded Writer (OutputStreamWriter writer = new > > OutputStreamWriter(outStream, "UTF-8")). > > and so on... > > > > Can anyone give me a hint? > > Debug messages all the way, when you know where the problem > is, you can find how to fix it. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
