i18n problems

[Yiannis Mavroukakis <yi...@jaguarfreight.com>]

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I am using TC 5.0.16.

 I once had problems when reading intl. form data and passing them thru
servlets to a database. That was solved by just using

 request.setCharacterEncoding("iso-8859-7");

Now the problem is opposite. I read strings from a database and as soon as
they become http data, their encoding is lost, resulting in ???'s instead of
text. Servlets do contain

res.setContentType("text/html; charset=iso-8859-7");
req.setCharacterEncoding("iso-8859-7");

and I have tried with UTF-8 as well, with same results. There is nothing
wrong with the database and the strings, as other applications work fine. To
make sure that I get correct strings from the db, I also print them to a
JTextArea (as soon as they are retrieved) and they have no problem.

So it's not a database, font, browser problem. Encoding is lost somewhere
inside TC and I don't know what to do... Any ideas welcome.

TIA


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Kostas Harvatis
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National Center for Social Research - Directorate of Research Support
www.ekke.gr


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RE: i18n problems

[Yansheng Lin <ya...@silvacom.com>]

Hi middleman:), can you ask your friend to do one thing first(I would do this
myself, but I am having trouble with my oracle jdbc driver:(. 

That is, native2ascii a test strings and insert it to the database.  I bet
that's why he is seeing the ???'s instead of the text. 

-yan

-----Original Message-----
From: Yiannis Mavroukakis [mailto:yiannis@jaguarfreight.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:45 AM
To: 'Tomcat Users List'
Subject: i18n problems


I'm acting as a middleman delivering this email for a friend who has trouble
contacting the list ;)


====================================================
I am using TC 5.0.16.

 I once had problems when reading intl. form data and passing them thru
servlets to a database. That was solved by just using

 request.setCharacterEncoding("iso-8859-7");

Now the problem is opposite. I read strings from a database and as soon as
they become http data, their encoding is lost, resulting in ???'s instead of
text. Servlets do contain

res.setContentType("text/html; charset=iso-8859-7");
req.setCharacterEncoding("iso-8859-7");

and I have tried with UTF-8 as well, with same results. There is nothing
wrong with the database and the strings, as other applications work fine. To
make sure that I get correct strings from the db, I also print them to a
JTextArea (as soon as they are retrieved) and they have no problem.

So it's not a database, font, browser problem. Encoding is lost somewhere
inside TC and I don't know what to do... Any ideas welcome.

TIA


==================================================


Kostas Harvatis
-----
National Center for Social Research - Directorate of Research Support
www.ekke.gr


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