Struts and Chineese characters

[syd kahn]

I have a text field on a Struts form that i type 展中国家或经济处于 into.

i send it out to as a mail message by appending the string variable to the output - the email gets garbled characters.

I put the string variable into a database using a CallableStatement and setString - it gets to the DB garbled. I know the datbaase can handle it (SQL SERVER 2000) since that is where i copied the characters from in the first place.

I am reading about getbytes() but am unsure of the usage or how to get the variable (which it says java deals with as utf-8) out to the databse/e-mail in the proper form

in short - i'm stuck

[Wagner Danda Da Silva Filho]

Once I got problems with encoding in Struts, then I solve it after changing the page directive to the correct encoding. E.g.:

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

[syd kahn]

I found the answer to my problem here

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg13132.html

By the time you get a chance to deal with the variables Struts has already parsed the response(request?) stream - and mangled the characters. this is the source for a filter that forces UTF-8 before the struts framework gets it grimy little hands on it.

The database insert now works - and the display page is good - just need to figure out how to get the charactes into the e-mail....

Thank G.D for GOOGLE....

[syd kahn]

Now that I have the web pages and the database displayng the characters correctly - the email is now broken - it only shows ??? for the data - I am using the jakarta commons (included in netbeans) and sending html mail. Is htere a way to tell it to accept UTF-8.

I can see the varaible's content in the IDE as \23edr\1111\222 etc - but they are not finding their way into the email correctly.

Any Ideas

[ November 18, 2005: Message edited by: syd kahn ]
[ November 18, 2005: Message edited by: syd kahn ]

[Nathan Pruett]

Moving to the Struts forum, since this seems to be a struts problem...

[syd kahn]

For those that have this problem - i was using the org.apache.commons.mail set of classes to send the mail. This is a wrapper around the javax.mail classes from sun

all that i had to do was add the setCharset line to get it all working...

  
 
HtmlEmail email = new HtmlEmail();
 
email.setCharset("UTF-8");//for chinese and other high order characters