It might solve your problems: <filter> <filter-name>charsetFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>encoding</param-name> <param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value> </init-param> </filter>
<filter-mapping> <filter-name>charsetFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Continuing to top-post thus : > > If you have some systems working and others not, check if all Tomcat's (or > rather, their JVMs) start under the same "locale" setting. > This is not a "good" reason, but it is often a reason for such things. > > A bit more detail : in java, if you open a text input stream without > specifying in which encoding it is, it will default to the "platform" > encoding, which in this case is the locale setting of the process which runs > the Java JVM which runs tomcat. > That applies also to webapps which read posted input, unless you are > careful. > You will not see this issue with XML input, because XML contains either an > explicit charset declaration, or defaults to UTF-8. So the XML parse always > knows. But pure text is another matter. > There is a lot more to say about these matters, but this will get you > started. > > > > > Dan Bagley wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> Thanks for the heads up, the server build we are having problem with is >> >> Server version: Apache Tomcat/5.5.20 >> Server built: May 8 2007 10:23:38 >> Server number: 5.5.20.0 >> OS Name: Linux >> OS Version: 2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp >> Architecture: amd64 >> JVM Version: 1.5.0_16-b02 >> JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. >> >> >> And yep this is a customer support issue as the later versions of Tomcat >> have not been approved through there security review process, so they're >> unable to move onto the later versions. >> >> I'll double check Tomcat 5.5.28, but there still may be issues with the >> client moving onto this release. >> >> Cheers >> >> Dan >> >> >> >> Peter Crowther wrote: >> >>> 2009/11/27 Dan Bagley <dan.bag...@metadatatechnology.com>: >>> >>> >>>> now when processing the plain text stream the accented characters are >>>> being >>>> corrupted even though the stream is being set to UTF-8. This is only >>>> happening on Linux and Tomcat 5.5 with plain text, on windows it works >>>> and >>>> Linux using Tomcat 6.0 it works. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Dan, exactly which version(s) of 5.5 and 6.0 are you using? Also, >>> which JVM are you using on each of these platforms? >>> >>> I'm not sure I have a solution for the problem, but you're more likely >>> to get useful answers off the list if we have some reasonably precise >>> version information ;-). If you're not testing on the latest 5.5.x >>> (which is 5.5.28), I've no doubt you'll also get a "does it still fail >>> on the latest 5.5?" question. >>> >>> From your question, I'm assuming you have a need to support older >>> Tomcat versions rather than just say "first install Tomcat 6.0.x". Is >>> that due to customers having older versions installed, or QA issues, >>> or some other reasons? >>> >>> - Peter >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >