Thanks Chris, I originally did struggle with encoding so have probably gone over the top in an attempt to fix the issues I was having. I will review my code following your suggestions.
Many Thanks Rob > From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Sent: 16 November 2010 19:19 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: the tomcat encoding > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob, > > On 11/16/2010 4:31 AM, Rob Gregory wrote: > > I also use a filter to set the following:- > > > > request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); > > response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8"); > > response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); > > FWIW, you shouldn't override any character encoding sent by the client. > If there is no encoding, feel free to "default" to UTF-8. > > > Within the final html output I always include the following meta tag:- > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; > > charset=utf-8"></meta> > > This only makes sense if the response is actually in UTF-8. I would > recommend something like this: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml; > charset={response.characterEncoding}" /> > > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzi2RQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBlaQCeOMxcnhPuX4hV/TPHT94+tmaM > oyMAoKR87o0U7voSaQ0OiUg9useP/aGJ > =O2Sy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
