Thanks to everyone who replied.
One of the devs found a workaround...we set the filter to set the encoding
of both the request and the response (previously we only tried setting one
or the other...apparently both have to be set correctly)
Regards,
Roy
On 4/10/06, roy tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this list, hope someone here can help. :)
>
> We're developing a webapp that should be able to accept Chinese input. We
> also have a filter installed in the webapp for some auditing that we need to
> do per request that's processed. However, we've found that when we submit a
> form with Chinese inputs, the Chinese chars end up saved to the database as
> HTML-escaped entities. ( i.e. 罢 or such).
>
> So we backtrace, and we find that removing the filter from web.xml fixes
> the problem. We debug through the doFilter() method of our filter, but we
> find that at the start of the method, request.getParameter ("PARAM_NAME")
> already shows the input as HTML-escaped entities.
>
> The weird thing is, this doesn't happen on all our Tomcat
> installations...each of our developers has a local Tomcat running, and it
> only happens for one or two. But it also happens on our Test (QA) server,
> such that our testing team always encounters the problem.
>
> Is there any particular language or encoding setting that I should be
> checking?
>
> Thanks a lot :D
>
> Roy
>
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