Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Willem Moors
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wonder if Wil knew he asked such a damn big question... ha ha > I'm really amazed at the volume of mails my question has raised. I can only see one solution to this complexity: let's all (everybody in the whole world) speak

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
I studied the Response Headers for the ajax call that generates the output and found that for the correct result (ie. in TC55), the content type was this: Content-Typetext/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1 while for the wrong result (ie. in TC6), the content type was: Content-Typetext/plain So I

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will, I cant see how TC can be influencing it > You write a char (the pound) to an output stream it appears differently in > browser... > TC is just sendign what it gets... > Its got to be this... > NumberFormat.getCur

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Mark Hagger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > You are almost certainly having a problem with (default) character > encodings on your system, usual things to check are the encoding that > the JVM is using, for example what does: > > echo $LANG > > return (usually control

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
> > 1. What the _Browser_ thinks about encoding of your page. > > In menu View > Encoding > what encoding is auto-selected there. Western / ISO 8859-1 for both. > 2. In Page Info dialog of Firefox > (in Tools menu or in context menu > Page Info ) > > what is Encoding, Content Type, and what MET

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
> > Will if possible use > £ > instead... that I think its font independent... > > Otherwise I think you have to sorround that > getCurrencyInstance > stuff with a font... and tell it what font it must use... > > ... I think > > I'm just wondering how the systems guess the character set from > getC

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Willem Moors
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Steve Ochani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm odd. > > I tried it on my Redhat test server and worked fine also. > > Is your tomcat 6 install a default/fresh install? > > What browser are you using? What character encoding does it think the > HelloWorldExample > ou

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Willem Moors
> > Works fine for me, fresh install of 6.0.18, changed the > HelloWorldExample.java and > recompiled. > > Tried with both IE7 and FF 3. > > > Are you sure you don't have a httpd in front of tomcat? > > I've seen simillar problem when using apache httpd. > I had to turn off the option > > AddDefaul

Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Willem Moors
I'm transferring my application from a tomcat 5.5.26 server to tomcat 6.0.18, and notice that my formatted currency amounts are not being properly displayed. Instead of a Pound (GBP) sign I get a question mark within a black diamond (the app works fine in 5.5.26). This can easily be emulated. Add