Re: UTF-8 Problem

use an encoding filter to ensure encoding.
its the most common way of ensuring encoding as i know.
i remember all other ways had some bugs and were not consistent.

-----Original Message-----
From: K R Viju [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Problem


Erik,
we cannot set encoding of request in the servlet,... do we?
I guess we have no method like setCharacterEncoding()

Viju
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Beijnoff" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Problem


> >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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