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Struts / glassfish: Encoding problem
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Mike Himstead
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Joined: Apr 12, 2006
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Hi,
I deployed a small application using Struts 1.3.8 to a glassfish v2 server at my local machine (Windows Vista x64). I experience a nasty encoding problem. My application should be unicode capable, but as it seems special characters (like German umlauts) get encoded wrongly. Debugging shows that a form parameter like "H�" is wrong when I check the form in the action. Where between the user's entry at the page and the action can characters become "misencoded"?
The page:
Or is glassfish the next thing to look at?
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Joe Ess
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Joined: Oct 29, 2001
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My wild guess is that your charset is UTF-8 and it doesn't support umlauts.
Here is a discussion that concurs with this guess.
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André-John Mas
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Joined: Oct 18, 2008
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UTF-8 most certainly does support umlauts, and a whole range of other language scripts. If Glassfish is anything like Tomcat, then you will need to add a character set filter, otherwise the data will be treated as ISO-8859-1 and you will have all sorts of corruption. One you add to your project is documented here:
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8
A simple test to know whether your application is handling UTF-8 correctly is to pass some Chinese characters and see they don't come through corrupted. Here is the Babelfish translation for 'hello world' which you can use:
你好世界
An indication that you are using UTF-8 correctly is that a) the characters are not corruped, b) � type values aren't being used.
[ November 27, 2008: Message edited by: Andr�-John Mas ]
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