Re: UTF-8 Problem

Erik Beijnoff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Hi All,
>I have a HTML page in which user can enter data in
>different languages, like ARABIC, ENGLISH etc. Hence i
>have made the page as charset=utf-8. Now when i submit my
>page to a servlet, all the characters except ascii are going
>as "?". This happens only when i use IE6 with ServicePack1
>run. But it works fine with IE6 without SP1. I am using Tomcat
>3.3.2. What could be wrong? Does anybody finds any hint?

Try adding this snippet to the start of your doGet() method. It may be
because the servlet does not recognize the request as being encoded in
UTF-8.

if(req.getCharacterEncoding() == null){
        req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
}

Regards Erik Beijnoff

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