[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scenario: > An own servlet (that is: a class derived from HttpServlet) is creating > very simple HTML output, containing (beside the necessary HTML tags > <html>,<body> etc.) just some German special characters (ä ö ü). > > The java source code is UTF-8, the response instance is configured via > response.setContentType( "text/html;charset=UTF-8" ); > Just for safety I also added > response.setCharacterEncoding( "UTF-8" ); > > The created HTML text contains a meta tag > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> > > Nevertheless: when calling the corresponding URL, all the special > characters are not displayed correctly in the browser (Firefox), when > using Tomcat 6. If I switch the encoding of the displayed page to > ISO-8859-1 in Firefox the characters are displayed correctly. That is: > it seems to me that everything is okay with the servlet, except that the > used encoding for the response is ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8.
Works fine for me. You do call response#setContentType before response#getWriter, don't you? There's no filter changing things? BTW: I consider LiveHTTPHeaders an incredibly useful Firefox extension when it comes to finding out which headers the server really sends. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
