I have a JSP page which contains what I believe to be a UTF-8 character; namely, octal \302\251, which I understand to be the UTF-8 coding for the copyright symbol. When this page is rendered in my browser, what appears is A-circumflex, the Latin-1 character corresponding to octal \302, followed by the copyright symbol, the Latin-1 character corresponding to octal \251. So, it looks as though the page is being rendered as though the page encoding was Latin-1 rather than UTF-8. This is despite the fact that the response header contains "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" and the page head contains "<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>".
Any ideas why this is happening and how I can get the page to display correctly? One thing I noticed is (and I don't know if this is relevant or not, but it seems kind of odd to me) ... When Tomcat (using Jasper 2, as far as I know) compiles the JSP page, the resulting x_jsp.java source file contains the following line: out.write("Copyright \303\202\302\251 2006"); Note the \303\202 preceding the \302\251. As near as I can tell, the x.jsp file does not contain the \303\202 -- it looks as though those are being added in the compilation process. (The x.jsp page has "Copyright \302\251 2006". I might also add that it has page directives 'contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8"' and 'pageEncoding="utf-8"'.) Also, in the conf/web.xml, I have tried explicitly adding <init-param> <param-name>javaEncoding</param-name> <param-value>UTF8</param-value> </init-param> to the <servlet> <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> block, with no apparent change in behavior. (Also tried it with param-value set to UTF-8, including the hyphen) I have also tried a number of other suggestions I have found in researching this on the web, including those listed below, all to no avail ... - added "-Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8" to the JAVA_OPTS for Tomcat JVM startup - added the following to conf/web.xml <context-param> <param-name>fileEncoding</param-name> <param-value>UTF-8</param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>contextDefaultEncoding</param-name> <param-value>UTF-8</param-value> </context-param> - added a CharacterEncodingFilter I found on the web to explicitly set response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8"); Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. --Jim ================================= Jim Coble Digital Projects Consultant Perkins Library Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 919-660-5974 Fax: 919-668-2578 Box 90198, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0198 ================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]