Good! :D
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Cédric Durmont <cdurm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, Rafa, now it works like a charm :o)
> Could not find how to get an ExternalContext from inside a filter,
> however. So my test is :
> if
> ("true".equals(((HttpServletRequest)(request)).getHeader("Tr-XHR-Message"))
> )
>
> ... because it's basically what isAjaxRequest and ExternalContext actually
> do.
>
> Thanks everyone for your help :o)
> Regards,
> Cedric Durmont
>
>
> 2010/2/12 Mike Quentel (4DM) <mquen...@4dm-inc.com>:
> > I recommend trying to set the encoding in the web container's
> configuration (eg: server.xml).
> >
> >
> > Mike Quentel
> > Senior Geospatial Software Developer
> > 4DM Inc.
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> > Toronto, Ontario
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> > Providing solutions through mapping technology....
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cédric Durmont <cdurm...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:38:39
> > To: MyFaces Discussion<users@myfaces.apache.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Trinidad] forced UTF-8 in PPR responses?
> >
> > Thanks for the answer. So Trinidad is fine, which is good news, but I
> > have to find another explanation as why it fails on my app. If I'm not
> > mistaking, the browser should make the conversion on-the-fly before
> > putting the new content into the page. But it does dot, and I have  ©
> > characters, meaning that those are utf8 chars interpreted as
> > windows-1252.
> >
> > About the reason that I am using win1252 instead of utf-8 : I'd be
> > glad to hear that it's not totally "unavoidable".
> > We're developping a new application that will come as a complement of
> > our older ones. One prerequisite is to re-use some database tables
> > (say, customers, cities/countries, and the likes). The database used
> > is... Oracle 10 XE (yeah, I know, don't get me started), which has no
> > i18n support, and only knows windows-1252.
> >
> > I'm not the Master of Charset Encoding, especially when it comes to
> > databases, but I was told that in this special case, I cannot instruct
> > the Oracle server that I'm a utf8-speaking client, so I have to use
> > the default, which is windows-1252.
> >
> > I'd take ANY solution to this problem, as far as it doesn't break the
> > compatibility with the other apps using the same database. If there's
> > a way to have xmhHttpRequest responses correctly displayed as
> > windows1252, then I'm fine. If I can instead keep utf8 and still use
> > the existing databases as-is, it'll make my day :o)
> >
> > Again, thanks for answering me
> > Regards,
> > Cedric Durmont
> >
> > 2010/2/11 Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robin...@gmail.com>:
> >> According to the W3C specification, XML http responses should always
> >> use UTF-8 encoding (requests too actually)
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
> >>
> >> "Authors are strongly encouraged to encode their resources using UTF-8"
> >>
> >> http://erik.eae.net/archives/2005/05/27/18.55.22/:
> >> "UTF-8 is the standard encoding for XML files, so it MSXML probably
> >> assumes that all files have that encoding if none is set."
> >>
> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/
> >> "responseText of type DOMString
> >> If the readyState attribute has a value other than 3 (Receiving) or 4
> >> (Loaded), it must be the empty string. Otherwise, it must be the the
> >> body of the data received so far, interpreted using the character
> >> encoding specified in the response, or UTF-8 if no character encoding
> >> was specified. Invalid bytes must be converted to U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
> >> CHARACTER."
> >> "If the method is POST or PUT, then the data passed to the send()
> >> method must be used for the entity body. If data is a string, the data
> >> must be encoded as UTF-8 for transmission. If the data is a Document,
> >> then the document must be serialised using the encoding given by
> >> data.xmlEncoding, if specified, or UTF-8 otherwise [DOM3]. If data is
> >> not a Document or a DOMString the host language must use the
> >> stringification mechanisms on the argument that was passed."
> >>
> >> Basically from what I have seen in the google results, UTF-8 is the
> >> XML standard and browsers are expecting AJAX to use UTF-8 for both
> >> request and responses. It appears that Trinidad is honoring these
> >> guidelines by forcing UTF-8 for XML responses (and other responses,
> >> like file-download)
> >>
> >> My question is why you are using windows-1252 encoding? What is the
> >> "unavoidable reason"?
> >>
> >> -Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Cédric Durmont <cdurm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering : what's the reason why XmlHttpServletResponse forces
> >>> the response to UTF-8, explicitly ignoring the page's encoding ?
> >>> I had a project in utf-8 that ran just fine (even with all accents and
> >>> fancy stuff we have here in France), but I have to switch it to
> >>> windows-1252 for some unavoidable reason. Everything has been
> >>> converted to windows-1252, including the filter I use to force
> >>> encoding in http requests. The only non-working things are PPR calls.
> >>>
> >>> I tracked modifications of http Response objects down to
> >>> XmlHttpServletResponse :
> >>>
> >>> ..
> >>> _contentType = "text/xml;charset=utf-8";
> >>> ..
> >>>
> >>> So, did I miss something, or PPR actually only works for iso8859-1 /
> >>> utf-8 apps ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Cedric Durmont
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
