Hi Martin,
Thanks!
I already have the following at the beginning of all the jsp pages.
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave-
I believe you can effect this encoding if you specify encoding="UTF-8" in the
xml element e.g.
I am not aware of CJK implementations that use UTF-8 ..you may want to consider
UTF-16
Scott does this look ok?
HTH,
Martin-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave"
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: Form login UTF-8 username problem
> Web application using JBoss 4.0.3SP1 and servlets.
> I am using FORM authentication. Can username be UTF-8?
> I create an account, its username is in UTF-8 encoding, chinese characters.
> But login was not successful. Can JBoss built-in authentication handle UTF-8
> encoding for username?
>
> Ascii username works.
>
> I tried to use a filter to set request encoding to UTF-8, but the filter was
> not called for URL pattern "j_security_check".
>
>
> filter
> /j_security_check
>
>
>
> Right now I am using a filter to set request encoding to UTF-8 for all
> requests in order to support chinese characters. It works great except Form
> login. The username is created in UTF-8 and stored in database.
>
> The related part in login-config.xml
>
> > flag="required">
>
> java:/DefaultDS
>
> select password from User where username=?
>
>
> So I suspect the FORM login need to go through a filter to set its encoding
> to UTF-8. Otherwise, the server side would assume iso-8859-1 encoding, and it
> would not find the username in database table. Is there a way to tell Web
> Container about the request encoding?
>
> Thanks for help. Have a nice day!
>
>
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