Encoding problem in servlet

[Abed Rabie]

Dear All,

I hope all of you get this mail in good health and mode. Please i need your help at some problem.

I'm developing a web site using apahce server as a web server and the site will be in a language other than English.

I'm using a db2 database.

The problem happend as it's:
1) I get the parameters from the servlet
2) I access a java bean class at the servlet which i made the connection to database in it.
3) the values didn't enter the database correctly in Arabic format.

NB.: if i write constant values of arabic in the bean class, it enters the database correctly in Arabic format.

Also I'm using the encoding "windows-1256" and I trried also "UTF-8"

So please advice and recommend a solution for me.

Looking forward to hear from u soon.

Thx and best regards

Aabed

[sureshbabu]

Have u tried request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

[Abed Rabie]

Dear Friend,

I will try this method but is it a must to set the encoding at html and xml as "utf-8" or just the servlets only.

Thanks alot for ur care and quick reply.

Best regards

Aabed

[Abed Rabie]

Dear All,

Can anyone help me to solve this problem.

Best regards

Abed

[Alex Sharkoff]

Hi Abed,

Please do the following:

First operations in your doGet/doPost are

   try {
      req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
      // Unexpected since this value is hard-coded
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(ex.getMessage());
    }
 
    // Set the content type for the response...
    resp.setContentType("text/html; charset=utf-8");

By the way this functionality can be implemented using Intercepting Filter design pattern (i.e. create your own implementation of javax.servlet.Filter, refer to the Servlet 2.4 spec's "Filtering" chapter if interested)