Good Morning Dave- As more applications become localised which actually means 'internationalised' we will have to pay attention to character sets supporting DBCS character-sets
Please keep me apprised, Martin- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>; "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:16 PM Subject: Re: Form login UTF-8 username problem > Hi Martin, > > Thanks! > I already have the following at the beginning of all the jsp pages. > > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%> > > > > Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave- > > I believe you can effect this encoding if you specify encoding="UTF-8" in the > xml element e.g. > > > I am not aware of CJK implementations that use UTF-8 ..you may want to > consider UTF-16 > Scott does this look ok? > HTH, > Martin- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave" > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:02 PM > Subject: Form login UTF-8 username problem > > >> Web application using JBoss 4.0.3SP1 and servlets. >> I am using FORM authentication. Can username be UTF-8? >> I create an account, its username is in UTF-8 encoding, chinese characters. >> But login was not successful. Can JBoss built-in authentication handle UTF-8 >> encoding for username? >> >> Ascii username works. >> >> I tried to use a filter to set request encoding to UTF-8, but the filter was >> not called for URL pattern "j_security_check". >> >> >> filter >> /j_security_check >> >> >> >> Right now I am using a filter to set request encoding to UTF-8 for all >> requests in order to support chinese characters. It works great except Form >> login. The username is created in UTF-8 and stored in database. >> >> The related part in login-config.xml >> >> > flag="required"> >> >> java:/DefaultDS >> >> select password from User where username=? >> >> >> So I suspect the FORM login need to go through a filter to set its encoding >> to UTF-8. Otherwise, the server side would assume iso-8859-1 encoding, and >> it would not find the username in database table. Is there a way to tell Web >> Container about the request encoding? >> >> Thanks for help. Have a nice day! >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Yahoo! Mail >> Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Mail > Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.
