Re: XForms sending UTF-8?

All right! Thank you for that!

Knowing that Firefox should be able to do UTF-8 I solved the problem
recognizing that X-Smiles is the evil in this game. Obviously it is only
able to send ISO-8859-1 encoded data in spite of many hints in my Form.

So I had to do a little if-else in the servlet to save Jürgen's life :-)
The tips from my side:

Working with XForms, UTF-8 and Servlets requires a lot hints.

1)For sure a declaration like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

2)The submission element should contain an encoding hint:
<xforms:submission id="send" action="../readinput" method="post"
encoding="UTF-8"/>

3)Using xhtml there should be a meta-tag: <meta
http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

4)Then you should take a look at my simple servlet:
setting Character Encoding for response AND request! Doing it a special
way for X-Smiles (for now).

public class ReadInput extends HttpServlet {
	public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response)
			throws ServletException, IOException {

		StringBuffer xmlcontent = new StringBuffer("");
		String helper, agent;
		agent = request.getHeader("User-Agent");

		if (agent.indexOf("X-Smiles") != -1) {
			request.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
		}
		else {
			request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
		}
		
		BufferedReader reader = request.getReader();

		while ((helper = reader.readLine()) != null) {
			xmlcontent.append(helper);
			xmlcontent.append("\n");
		}

		response.setContentType("application/xml");
		response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
		PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();		
		out.print(xmlcontent);
	}
}



Allan Beaufour wrote:
> Hi Daniel
> 
> On Friday 13 May 2005 00:05, Daniel Thommes wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to get Mozilla XForms working together with a Java-Servlet. I
>>want the form to send utf-8 encoded data because auf the german
>>special-chars.
>>At this point X-Smiles and Formsplayer for IE work (after all) without
>>problems sending utf-8. But when I use special chars in Firefox, there
>>are strange letters reaching the Server.
>>
>>Is there still no possibility to use utf-8? Or what am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> We should support utf-8. I've just tested it myself, and "Jürgen" in my 
> instance data seems to survive correctly both a submission using "utf-8" and 
> one using "iso-8859-1":
> http://lab.cph.novell.com/~abeaufour/xforms/encoding.xhtml
> 
> I'm not the submission wizard, but the handling and code looks fine at first 
> sight
>