Is it valid to say "charset=UTF-8"? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 7:51 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Encoding in Tomcat 6
Hi all, I noticed some encoding problems inside servlets, when switching from Tomcat 5.5.20 to Tomcat 6.0.10. I looked for it in the mailing lists, but didn't find something appropriate. 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. When using Tomcat 5.5 everything is displayed correctly as UTF-8. Java Server Pages do _not_ show similar behaviour. Has anyone experienced similar problems? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
