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

Hi Will,

In your Application constructor, you can initialize with the code  
below to ensure your URL properly encoded as well.

          
com.webobjects.appserver._private.WOURLEncoder.WO_URL_ENCODING = "UTF8";


Regards,
Kai


On 22-Mar-06, at 1:38 PM, Will Scheidegger wrote:

> 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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