Hello Tomcat users, I'm developing an application in Jboss 4.0.2, which uses Tomcat 5.5.9 as web tier.
I'm trying to make Tomcat decoding the request body with the correct encoding. I have problems with IE and Firefox as well. The html page has the meta tag: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" > all characters are displayed well in both browsers, the page encoding appears correctly set to UTF-8. The problems arises when I try to submit "strange" characters as currency symbols (euro, pound, yen, ...) in a form text box. Debugging Tomcat source, I see the following in the org.apache.catalina.connector.Request: the parseParameters() method tries to get the correct encoding: String enc = getCharacterEncoding(); the ContentType.getCharsetFromContentType() tries to infer the correct character encoding from the request Content-Type header, but since it is not set it returns null: public static String getCharsetFromContentType(String type) { if (type == null) { return null; } int semi = type.indexOf(";"); if (semi == -1) { return null; } Here the problem is the content type of the http request coming from the browser is as follows (as grabbed by an http tracer): Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Hence, it doesn't contain any ";charset=utf-8" appended, as expected. The body looks to me correctly encoded in UTF-8 format. Thus, the parseParameters() parses the parameters with its default character encoding which is ISO-8859-1: parameters.setEncoding (org.apache.coyote.Constants.DEFAULT_CHARACTER_ENCODING); Now, I know this is not a Tomcat problem, but I don't know how to force the client to sent the correct information to the server. Any ideas how to solve this? It was nice also if I could set up Tomcat default encoding to UTF-8, without recompiling the source (I have some requirements on the Jboss/Tomcat: I can't use a modified or different version). By the way, I already tried to update the file $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml for UTF-8 support by connectors with the parameter URIEncoding="UTF-8". Thanks for your help, -- TREMALNAIK --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]