Character Encoding question

[Richard Jones <ri...@ub.uib.no>]

Hi All,

I am having problems with Scandinavian characters on my system and am
attempting to isolate the problem; any help would be greatly
appreciated.

The problem manifests when forms are posted containing Scandinavian
characters.  In some cases these characters are de/encoded correctly and
in other cases they are replaced by strings of other special characters.
The system that I am working with aims to use UTF-8 encoding, and there
are meta elements on all the pages to this effect.

I have enabled the RequestDumperValve which shows that the characters
are incorrectly decoded by the time they reach this stage of processing.
I have noticed a correlation (although not necessarily a relationship)
between whether the characters are correctly decoded and whether the
request is reporting using:

contentType=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1

or incorrectly decoded when:

contentType=text/html;charset=UTF-8

(This comes from the part of the RequestDumperValve output which is
separated from the main request part by two dashed lines).

I have tried modifying the Connector for the service by adding

URIEncoding="UTF-8"

and experimented with both:

useBodyEncodingForURI="true" and useBodyEncodingForURI="false"

with no luck.

Does anyone have any experience or advice that might point me in the
right direction.  It is entirely possible that this problem is /not/ a
tomcat issue, but I am running out of ideas here.

PS, sorry for the previous partial post - I just discovered a new
keyboard shortcut by accident!

Best Wishes,

-- 
Richard
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Richard Jones                    |
Overingeniør                     | Senior Engineer
Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen | University of Bergen Library

e: richard.jones@ub.uib.no
t: +47 55 58 25 37

BORA: http://bora.uib.no/



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Re: Character Encoding question

[Manfred Steurer <ma...@gamed.com>]

Just a guess:
Check the format of the .jsp-files. I had similar problems and solved 
them by converting the jsp-files to UTF-8.

- Manfred


Richard Jones wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I am having problems with Scandinavian characters on my system and am
>attempting to isolate the problem; any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>The problem manifests when forms are posted containing Scandinavian
>characters.  In some cases these characters are de/encoded correctly and
>in other cases they are replaced by strings of other special characters.
>The system that I am working with aims to use UTF-8 encoding, and there
>are meta elements on all the pages to this effect.
>
>I have enabled the RequestDumperValve which shows that the characters
>are incorrectly decoded by the time they reach this stage of processing.
>I have noticed a correlation (although not necessarily a relationship)
>between whether the characters are correctly decoded and whether the
>request is reporting using:
>
>contentType=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>or incorrectly decoded when:
>
>contentType=text/html;charset=UTF-8
>
>(This comes from the part of the RequestDumperValve output which is
>separated from the main request part by two dashed lines).
>
>I have tried modifying the Connector for the service by adding
>
>URIEncoding="UTF-8"
>
>and experimented with both:
>
>useBodyEncodingForURI="true" and useBodyEncodingForURI="false"
>
>with no luck.
>
>Does anyone have any experience or advice that might point me in the
>right direction.  It is entirely possible that this problem is /not/ a
>tomcat issue, but I am running out of ideas here.
>
>PS, sorry for the previous partial post - I just discovered a new
>keyboard shortcut by accident!
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>  
>

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