[SOLVED by hack]: char encoding in DirectAction requests?

When I had a closer look at the request object that was passed to my  
DirectAction method I found out that its encoding was always set to  
ISO... Now I'm manually forcing it to use UTF8 on every request:
request().setDefaultFormValueEncoding(_NSUtilities.UTF8StringEncoding);

Isn't there a place where this could be set "once and for all"?

-Will

On 22.03.2006, at 11:16, Will Scheidegger wrote:

> Once again I'm struggling with character encoding. My app is  
> supposed to encode everything in UTF-8, so I got the following in  
> my code:
>
> In "Application":
> - WORequest.setDefaultURLEncoding("UTF-8");
> - public void takeValuesFromRequest(WORequest aRequest, WOContext   
> aContext) {
>         aRequest.setDefaultFormValueEncoding 
> ( _NSUtilities.UTF8StringEncoding );
>         super.takeValuesFromRequest(aRequest, aContext);
>     }
> - public WOResponse createResponseInContext(WOContext context) {
> 		WOResponse response = super.createResponseInContext(context);
> 		response.setContentEncoding( _NSUtilities.UTF8StringEncoding);
> 		return response;
> }
> - public void appendToResponse(WOResponse response, WOContext  
> context) {
> 		super.appendToResponse(response, context);
> 		if (_NSUtilities.UTF8StringEncoding.equals 
> (response.contentEncoding())) {
> 			response.setHeader("text/html; charset=UTF-8", "Content-Type");
> 		}
> 	}
>
> In "Session":
> - public void takeValuesFromRequest(WORequest aRequest, WOContext   
> aContext) {
>         aRequest.setDefaultFormValueEncoding 
> ( _NSUtilities.UTF8StringEncoding );
>         super.takeValuesFromRequest(aRequest, aContext);
>     }
>
> Even in the html:
> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>
> Still, when I submit the for using a direct action, I'm getting  
> crippled data when the user entered non-ascii characters. Needles  
> to say that everything works fine (including chinese and japanese  
> characters) when the data is submitted using a regular form and a  
> component action.
>
> I've searched the web and looked at "Practical WebObjects" chapter  
> 8 but did not find an answer yet.
>
> -Will
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