[email protected] wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Rahkonen Jukka > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have some troubles with Geoserver sending out UTF-8 formatted > > GetFeatureInfo responses for Windows clients which default > to ISO-8859-1. > > Our developer said that it would be nice if the response > headers came with > > charset info, for example by containing something like > > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; > charset=UTF-8"></meta> > > > > We have been thinking that perhaps we can add charset info > be creating a > > custom header.ftl file. However, I wonder why Geoserver > does not advertise > > the charset automatically? > > The header.ftl file it's something that you can modify as you see fit, > but GeoServer > does not parse it to see if you declared a charset, so it > will continue to emit > GetFeatureInfo in UTF-8.
We noticed that it may lead to invalid situation too if we have header.ftl that advertises hard coded UTF-8 but from global server settings the encoding is changed to something else. However, we plan to use UTF-8 everywhere so that should work for us. > GeoServer does not advertise the charset automatically > because we don't > have the code that sets up the headers for GetFeatureInfo > output I guess. > Can you open a ticket in Jira? A patch would be nice too :-p I can do tickets but not patches but I am not totally alone here. Anyway, I will start with a ticket. -Jukka- > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Ing. Andrea Aime > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Tech lead > > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 962313 > mob: +39 339 8844549 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
