Re: How to UTF-8 your site. FAQ

[Jason Bainbridge <ja...@jblinux.org>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:19, Mark F wrote:
> Is someone collecting the posts like this one?  Information like this needs
> to be indexed.
>
> -Mark

It will get remembered now, I did see it before and earmarked it but now it 
has FAQ in the subject line it will get recorded. :)

If you post anything worthy of including in a FAQ or howto please put 'FAQ' 
somewhere in the subject line and that will ensure it gets picked up.

Regards,
-- 
Jason Bainbridge
http://jblinux.org

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roberts, Eric" <Er...@one.at>
> To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:47 AM
> Subject: RE: How to UTF-8 your site.
>
>
> I would just like to say thanks.
>
> I have a magazine site which I recently upgraded from 3.2 to 4.1.24, and
> all quotation marks in the text were being replaced with the dreaded "?"
> The prospect of editing manually over 100 pages was not a prospect I was
> looking forward to.
>
> Following your advice, everything is now 100%.
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andoni [mailto:andoni@indigo.ie]
> Sent: 10 June 2003 13:27
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: How to UTF-8 your site.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have recently completed the torturous process of translating my web-site
> into 16 European languages.  Having had lots of advice from this list and
> other sources I have come down to a few conclusions about what a Java /
> Tomcat web-site needs in order to fully support UTF-8.
>
> These are:
>
> 1.
> JSP pages must inlcude the header:
>
> <%@ page
>  contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
> %>
>
> 2.
> In the Catalina.bat (windows) catalina.sh (windows)
> apache$jakarta_config.com (OpenVMS), file there must be a switch added to
> the call to java.exe.  The switch is:
>
> -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
>
> I cannot find documentation for this environment variable anywhere or what
> it actually does but it is essential.
>
> 3.
> For translation of inputs coming back from the browser there must be a
> method that translates from the browser's ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.  It seems to
> me that -1 is used in all regions as I have had people in countries such as
> Greece & Bulgaria test this and they always send input back in -1 encoding.
> The method which you will use constantly should go something like this:
>
>  /**
>   * Convert ISO8859-1 format string (which is the default sent by IE
>   * to the UTF-8 format that the database is in.
>   */
>  public String toUTF8(String isoString)
>  {
>   String utf8String = null;
>   if (null != isoString && !isoString.equals(""))
>   {
>    try
>    {
>     byte[] stringBytesISO = isoString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
>     utf8String = new String(stringBytesISO, "UTF-8");
>    }
>    catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e)
>    {
>     // As we can't translate just send back the best guess.
>     System.out.println("UnsupportedEncodingException is: " +
> e.getMessage());
>     utf8String = isoString;
>    }
>   }
>   else
>   {
>    utf8String = isoString;
>   }
>   return utf8String;
>  }
>
>
> I have found that these three steps are all that is necessary to make your
> site accept any language that UTF-8 can work with.  I extend my thanks to
> those of you on the Tomcat users list who helped me find these little gems.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andoni.
>
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