In my application also used the 'struts.i18.encoding=UTF-8' but I had the same problem. But I found a way to get it to work. This way you are only telling struts that has to use UTF-8. But you also need to tell to your Applications Container (Tomcat for example) that you want UTF-8.
1. Set the URI encoding of Tomcat's server.xml configuration file. Set URIEncoding="UTF-8" in your http/https connectors: <!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 80 --> <Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="80" redirectPort="443"/> 2. Set a custom filter to configure POST requests use UTF-8: <!-- To get POST requests as UTF-8 --> <filter> <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>path.to.your.filter.SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <param-value>UTF-8</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> Tomcat already comes with such an example filter of SetCharacterEncodingFilter. 3. Also in my application's web.xml I have set that JSPs use UTF-8 as a default: <jsp-config> <!-- UTF-8 as the default JSP encoding --> <jsp-property-group> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding> </jsp-property-group> </jsp-config> 4. In every JSP you I have the following typical <meta> tag inside <head>: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> I hope it will help. Cristian. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM, carl ballantyne <carl.ballant...@cast-info.es> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have an app with form fields and when submitting them to my Struts 2 > actions the values are getting garbled. For example "espaƱa" becomes > "espa?". > > I think the problem is with Struts because when I create a basic jsp page > and submit back to itself and display the form field - it works fine. > > I have tried setting struts.i18n.encoding=UTF-8 in the struts.properties > file and the struts.xml file to no avail. Has anyone used this with success? > I have searched the forums and it seems to me that people have to resort to > custom filters to workaround the problem. > > Cheers, > Carl. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > -- GPG Key-ID: 0x564903FA - JID: corell...@swissjabber.ch --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org