-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe,
Joe Russo wrote: > I am in the process of converting from using JRUN to Tomcat Good for you! Welcome to the community. > I have > ran into the problem where these funky symbols are displaying. I can > not find any stack traces that would explain or possibly clue into a > solution. Right. These things (encoding problems) hardly ever generate errors; they just exhibit unexpected behavior. > My questions are: > Does Tomcat have problems with any types of encoding? Yes and no. Tomcat behaves exactly as the HTTP specification mandates. That is, it interprets all incoming data using the ISO-8859-1 character encoding unless the request states otherwise (in the Content-Type header). Some browsers don't send the encoding along with the Content-Type, so the behavior gets confused. Some browsers only send an encoding when there is POST data, since the Content-Type only really makes sense when where is request content (the POST data). Unfortunately, the browser usually uses (what would have been) the Content-Type of a request to encode the URL in the request. So, if a browser uses UTF-8 to encode the URL (which is typical these days), but doesn't send a Content-Type header (or leaves out the encoding), then Tomcat interprets it incorrectly as ISO-8859-1, and you get funny characters. It's not Tomcat's fault. It's actually not the browser's fault, either. It's actually the HTTP spec's fault, since the character encoding used in URLs isn't explicitly laid out. :( > What type of characters are being displayed below and any advice in > troubleshooting or solving this would be gratefully appreciated. The presence of the 'รข' character looks to me like a UTF-8 URL being interpreted as an ISO-8859-1 URL. Try searching google for CharacterEncodingFilter and take a look at that. It tries to recover from requests that don't include a character encoding. You should also look at the "URIEncoding" attribute of the <Connector> element. You can set the encoding to something other than the default (ISO-8859-1). For more information, see: http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#tomcat5CharEncoding http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/connectors.html#utf8 http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/ajp.html (if you use JK) http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/http.html (if you don't) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGp3Wi9CaO5/Lv0PARAm9kAJ0Sb2P15mo+x5IUQZBiP1laJKCI3gCdFcO3 W0t6lz0jMzyvRsPK3BTBaXE= =uAOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
