JSTL & character encoding

[Adam Hardy <ah...@cyberspaceroad.com>]

In  <fmt:message key=".."/> the class 
...tag.common.fmt.SetLocaleSupport's method setResponseLocale() is 
called after fetching the localizationContext and before getting the 
bundle.

In setResponseLocale(), the response's locale is set via 
response.setLocale(). This method according to the API also:

"Sets the locale of the response, setting the headers (including the 
Content-Type's charset) as appropriate"

thus overwriting what I set with my JSP page contentType= directive.

Would this a bug in Sun's implementation, a bug in MessageTag, or not a 
bug at all?

I see it as a problem because I cannot control what 
ServletResponse.setLocale() does to the http headers. A locale is 
ignorant of the character encoding, so it seems strange taht calling 
this method should affect the http character encoding header.

I see there's an entry in bugzilla already from a couple of weeks ago:

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23125





On 09/28/2003 05:54 PM Adam Hardy wrote:
> I'm trying to set my pages to UTF-8. I am setting my page directive with:
> 
> <% page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
> 
> and so long as I don't use the JSTL fmt taglibs, it works. When I put in 
> something like <fmt:message key="general.browserTitle" /> then UTF-8 is 
> overridden and response content type is set to ISO-8859-1.
> 
> On digging around I can't really see obviously in the source when the 
> response.setContentType is called, but I can see that the sessions are 
> getting this attribute set:
> 
> javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.request.charset==ISO-8859-1
> 
> although it doesn't seem to be the cause, just another symptom. I have 
> tried <fmt:requestEncoding value="UTF-8" /> with no success.
> 
> I am using a filter in tomcat to set the request encoding anyway, and 
> this is always UTF-8.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help on this, I've must have spent about 6 hours 
> trying to nail this glitch.
> 
> Thanks
> Adam
> 

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