special characters in JSTL

[Haiko van der Schaaf]

Hoi,

I got a problem with displaying the character �. The code of the jsp is:

<c:out value="${someproperty}" escapeXml="false"/>

The static content in the JSP displays the � correctly, but in the out-tag the character is misformed. I have set the page encoding and contentType of the page in utf-8 and the string someproperty correctly shows an � with debugging, but somewhere in the translation from the controller to the view the character is misformed. Has anyone an idea what happens ??

Thanks Haiko

[Haiko van der Schaaf]

problem was in the <c:import> tag. When I add the attribute charEncoding with the value utf-8 the problem was solved. I did a recursive import in this jsp file(mijnxtranet/notifylevel.jsp). The complete code is:
What a bit strange is that the directive is overruled by the import attribute.

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean-el.tld" prefix="bean-el"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html-el.tld" prefix="html-el"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic-el.tld" prefix="logic-el"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" prefix="c"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/fmt.tld" prefix="fmt"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic"%>

<html-el:xhtml />

<c:set var="my_node" value="${requestScope.recurse_node}" />


<c:set var="ulclass" value="open" />
<c:if test="${!my_node.uitgeklapt}">
<c:set var="ulclass" value="closed" />
</c:if>

<ul id="<c:out value='ul_${my_node.klapTagValue}' />"
class="<c:out value='${ulclass}' />">
<c:forEach var="curcat" items="${my_node.children}">
<li id="<c:out value='${curcat.klapTagValue}' />">
<%--
klapbaar: <c:out value="${curcat.klapbaar}" />
uitgeklapt: <c:out value="${curcat.uitgeklapt}" />
--%>
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${curcat.klapbaar}">
<c:choose>
<c:when test="${curcat.uitgeklapt}">
<html-el:img src="/images/global/min.gif"
styleId="img_${curcat.klapTagValue}" border="0" alt="" />   
</c:when>
<c:otherwise>
<html-el:img src="/images/global/plus.gif"
styleId="img_${curcat.klapTagValue}" border="0" alt="" />   
</c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
</c:when>
<c:otherwise>
<html-el:img src="/images/global/minplusspacer.gif" border="0"
alt="" />   
</c:otherwise>
</c:choose>
<c:set var="checked" value="" />
<c:if test="${curcat.checked == true}">
<c:set var="checked" value="checked" />
</c:if>

<input type="checkbox" name="cat_<c:out value="${curcat.id}"/>"
value="<c:out value="${curcat.id}"/>" <c:out value="${checked}"/>
<c:if test="${!curcat.allChildrenChecked}"> style="background-color: #ddd"</c:if> />
<c:out value="${curcat.naam}" />
<c:if test="${not empty curcat.children}">
<c:set var="recurse_node" value="${curcat}" scope="request" />
<c:import url="../mijnxtranet/notifylevel.jsp" charEncoding="UTF-8"/>
</c:if>
</li>
</c:forEach>
</ul>
<c:set var="recurse_node" value="${my_node}" scope="request" />
[ August 07, 2006: Message edited by: Haiko van der Schaaf ]