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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37599

           Summary: Tiles Request Processor - Character encoding
           Product: Struts
           Version: 1.1 Final
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Tiles framework
        AssignedTo: dev@struts.apache.org
        ReportedBy: chitrala@rediffmail.com


Hi,

I have a requirement where in I need to use UTF8 encoding for my web app since 
it needs to support chinese characters. In another words, form labels, button 
labels and entire site content needs to be in chinese. I am using the below 
environment for my project.

Env:
Tomcat - v5.0.28
J2SDK  - v1.4.2
OS     - Windows XP / Linux 2.1AS/i386

I am using TilesRequestProcessor. I tried different ways of changing charset 
to UTF8 but all my efforts went futile. Is this some kind of bug?

I tried in the following different ways but the output is same for all my 
attempts :( The character encoding is defaulting to "ISO-8859-1"

Try 1: Used the following meta tag in my Template.jsp
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

Try 2: Configure it at Tomcat's connector level in server.xml as below
<Connector port="8080"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
               debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000" 
               disableUploadTimeout="true" 
               URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>

Try 3: Configre it at Controller class level in struts-config.xml as below

<controller
    processorClass="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesRequestProcessor"
    contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>

Try 4: Configure it at your form level as below

<html:form method="POST" action="encoding" enctype="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

Neither of the above 4 attemps produced fruitful results.

One interesting observation in this exercise is that if I use a tiles-
definition for my action forwards UTF8 encoding won't happen
i.e, 
<action
            path="/encoding"
            name="indexForm"            
            type="com.test.ui.action.IndexAction"            
            parameter="method"            
            scope="request"            
            validate="false"            
            input="/index.jsp">            
            <forward name="ENCODING_REDIRECT"   path="encoding"/>            
         </action>   

  <definition name="encoding" extends="mainTemplate" >
    <put name="body"   value="/pages/encoding.jsp" />
  </definition>

But if I specify the target jsp something like this UTF8 encoding works !!

<action
            path="/encoding"
            name="indexForm"            
            type="com.test.ui.action.IndexAction"            
            parameter="method"            
            scope="request"            
            validate="false"            
            input="/index.jsp">            
            <forward name="ENCODING_REDIRECT"   
path="/pages/encoding.jsp"/>            
         </action>

Is there any fix available for this?

Thanks
- Kishore

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