foriegn characters turn to ? in database

[Bryan Murtha <br...@hotmail.com>]

Hey All,


    We are accepting form submissions from users all over the world.
The foriegn characters end up in Sybase looking like a ?. Does someone
know how to deal with this?

Regards,
Bryan


----Original Message Follows----
From: Stefanos Karasavvidis <st...@multimedia-sa.gr>
Reply-To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: getServletContext() throws NullPoinetException
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:46:04 +0300

I've just installed tomcat 3.2.2 and have the following problem.

I want to call getServletContext() from a servlets service method but
get the folowing exception
*Internal Servlet Error:*

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.getServletContext(GenericServlet.java:205)
	at TestServlet.service(TestServlet.java:32)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:797)
	at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416)
	at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)


Moreover the getServletConfig() returns null which is probably the main
reason for this problem

Any ideas??

Stefanos



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