"Mieke Banderas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mark Thomas said: >>Mieke Banderas wrote: >>> Mark Thomas said: >>>>Read the spec. >>> Where in the spec? >> >>"JSP.4 Internationalization Issues" would seem to be a blinding >>obvious place to start. > > I didn't find anything obvious in that section. It says: > "A JSP page uses a character encoding. The encoding can be described > explicitly using the pageEncoding attribute of the page directive. The > character encoding defaults to the encoding indicated in the contentType > attribute of the page directive if it is given, or to ISO-8859-1 > otherwise." > Which is more or less what T P already had got down in the question. > > So it seems there were something else going on, unless I miss something. > Is Tomcat 3, 4 and 5 very different in the settings that need to be done? > I still use 3 and 4. >
Tomcat 3 is very different from 4 & 5. In particular, internationalization isn't very well supported in JSP 1.1/Servlet 2.2. Tomcat 3.3.x has some specialized extensions to work around this, but at the end of the day it's an outdated spec problem. > Some links list searchers may appreciate: > The JSP 1.1, 1.2 (the one I needed myself) and 2.0 specifications are > downloadable (after reg) from Sun here: > <http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/reference/api/index.html> > (Scroll down to the specs) > and JSP documentation is here: > <http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/docs.html> > > While not JSP specific, I've found this useful link page of Java > Internationalization oriented writings as well: > "i18ngurus.com, the open internationalization resources directory" -> / > Programming/Java > <http://www.i18ngurus.com/docs/984813264.html> > > and O'Reilly released the book "Java Internationalization" in 2001 > <http://www.javainternationalization.com/blog/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
