Request parameters problem

[MIYABE Tatsuhiko <mi...@jzf.co.jp>]

Now, I'm developing web application using Cocoon2.
But I came up against some problems in relation to Japanese language
processing.
Yesterday, I considered how to solve them fundamentally.

Servlet2.2 has problems about charactor encoding of HTTP request,
therefore We decode multibyte text with following code compulsory.

	String value = request.getParameter("foo");
	byte[] bytes = value.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");//Encode in servlet container
encoding.
	value = new String(bytes, "Shift_JIS");//Decode in national encoding.

Servlet2.3 solved problems by adding setCharacterEncoding into
javax.servlet.ServletRequest.
By the way,Cocoon2 has some components that using request parameters.
If I'll develop patches for multibyte text, then I must write the above
codes for reason of Cocoon2 build with Servlet2.2.
I think,these deformities should solve in
org.apache.cocoon.environment.Request.
One of a solution is adding this method for the Request.It likes Servlet2.2.
But it is a enhancement for Cocoon2 for solving Servlet2.2's problem.(not
corresponding)

	setCharacterEncoding(String form_encoding);

Components should use this method when accessing request parameters.
And may be necessary following method.

	setContainerEncoding(String container_encoding);

However,I think that container_encoding should be contained application
configuration(cocoon.xconf) instead of above method.

For example:
	<servlet-container>
		<parameter name="container-encoding" value="Shift_JIS"/>
	</servlet-container>

I want to learn developers opinions.

--
MIYABE Tatsuhiko
miyabe@jzf.co.jp
Osaka, Japan.


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