Just had this question come up.
Basically you need to add a character encoding filter that does a
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); before anyone reads the request.
See this thread:
http://www.nabble.com/Handle-Japanese-characters-from-jsp-page-into-ActionClass-td24686908.html
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Vítor Souza <vitorso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've searched the entire afternoon for something about this, tried many
> many
> things, but so far nothing has worked. Please, help.
>
> When I type my name - "Vítor" - in a <s:textfield />, the value "VÃtor" is
> set at the action's property.
>
> I've tried using <input type="textfield" /> to see if the problem was in
> the
> Struts tags, but the problem persisted.
>
> I've added the parameter acceptcharset="UTF-8" to <s:form />, but didn't
> make a difference.
>
> I copied the source code of ParametersInterceptor from XWork 2.1.2's source
> to debug. When it calls retrieveParameters(ac) in line 173, the value of
> the
> name property in the map is already corrupted.
>
> My web pages all start with:
>
> <%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
>
> My SiteMesh decorator also declares in the <head> section:
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
>
> I've also deactivated SiteMesh to see if it was causing the problem, but
> no.
>
> I've set and unset "struts.i18n.encoding=UTF-8" in struts.xml and
> struts.properties, but it doesn't make a difference, since that is the
> default anyways, right?
>
> I've tried using Tomcat 6.0.20 and Tomcat 5.5.27, both with same results.
>
> I've added URIEncoding="UTF-8" to the <Connector /> definition in Tomcat's
> server.xml, but didn't work either.
>
> I really don't know what else to do. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Vítor Souza
>
>
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