Struts and Escaping Special Charachters in HTML

[Hamrita Sami <Sa...@eon-energie.com>]

Hello,

does Struts support escaping special charachters for HTML GUIs (e.g. ü -->
ü) when using its custom tags library? 
If yes, how to enable that feature then? 

Cheers,
Sami

Re: Struts and Escaping Special Charachters in HTML

[Joe Germuska <Jo...@Germuska.com>]

At 4:50 PM +0200 9/2/04, Hamrita Sami wrote:
>Hello,
>
>does Struts support escaping special charachters for HTML GUIs (e.g. ü -->
>ü) when using its custom tags library?
>If yes, how to enable that feature then?

Struts doesn't convert characters to HTML 
entities.  Instead, you should control the 
character encoding of your pages so that the 
characters can be displayed correctly without 
entities.

A general easy way to do this with JSPs is to set 
the content-type of the page with a JSP @page 
directive like this:

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

Of course, you may need to use a different 
charset, but UTF-8 is a pretty good default.

There are other ways to set the character 
encoding, but this one is simplest to me.  Note 
that if you use tiles or other JSP include 
strategies, only the first content-type is 
honored - it is ignored in pages that write to an 
output stream that already has been "started".

Hope this helps.
	Joe

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