Character encoding problems [was BugRat Report #323 has been filed.]

[Nick Bauman <ni...@cortexity.com>]

3.2 and 3.3 devs: Why havn't Pilho's patches been incorporated into the
main tree?

-Nick

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Pilho Kim wrote:

> Please check
> 
>     http://www.javaclue.org/tomcat/
> 
> Kim
> 
> 
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, BugRat Mail System wrote:
> 
> > Bug report #323 has just been filed.
> > 
> > You can view the report at the following URL:
> > 
> >    <http://znutar.cortexity.com:8888/BugRatViewer/ShowReport/323>
> > 
> > REPORT #323 Details.
> > 
> > Project: Tomcat
> > Category: Bug Report
> > SubCategory: New Bug Report
> > Class: swbug
> > State: received
> > Priority: high
> > Severity: critical
> > Confidence: public
> > Environment: 
> >    Release: 3.1
> >    JVM Release: jdk1.2.2
> >    Operating System: Solaris
> >    OS Release: 2.6
> >    Platform: Unix
> > 
> > Synopsis: 
> > Tomcat 3.1 mishandles UTF-8 encoded text above the ascii range
> > 
> > Description:
> > My servlet produces UTF-8 encoded HTML pages that 
> > include encoded Unicode character values in the CJK range; 
> > I set the HttpServletResponse.ContentType in these cases to
> > "text/html;charset=utf-8".  Under an early issue of 
> > Tomcat 3.1, the UTF-8 encoded CJK characters got submitted 
> > to the browser properly; IE5 with the proper fonts 
> > installed was able to display theses characters just fine.  
> > Under the newest issue of Tomcat 3.1, however, the CJK 
> > characters in the HTML pages are replaced with "?"s before 
> > they are submitted to the browser! 
> > 
> > For another report of the same problem, see 
> > Stefan van den Oord's memo to the developers list on
> > May 4, 2000:
> > 
> > http://www.metronet.com/~wjm/tomcat/FromFeb11/msg01988.html )
> > 
> > 
> 
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-- 
Nicolaus Bauman
Software Engineer
Simplexity Systems