Thanks for the reply Chuck,
I read in the documentation that the default encoding in Tomcat for incoming
requests like from a form submission is Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1).
So the text in nameTextField (which is of type TextField) is UTF-8 text that
was 'treated' like Latin-1.
What I did is as suggested here:
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1030399
to take the value (getValue() which returns an Object) and cast into String,
then take the bytes as Latin-1 and
construct a new String to return it to UTF-8.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I've changed the code a bit and it looks like this:
String nameText = (String)nameTextField.getText();
String convText = new String(ntft.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");
String subj = "קורות חיים של "+convText;
message.setSubject(subj, "utf-8");
getText() returns an Object so it has to be casted to String.
Still doesn't work.
Any suggestions are welcome..
On Nov 8, 2007 6:25 AM, Caldarale, Charles R < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > From: Yigal Lazarev [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Tomcat 6.0.14 and UTF-8 POST form problem
> >
> > * * Converting from ISO to UTF: *
> > String subj = "קורות חיים של "+new
> > String(((String)nameTextField.getValue()).
> > getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");
>
> I'm confused: if the text is already in UTF-8, why are you taking an
> apparent text field (already a String, perhaps?), doing a getValue() - a NOP
> for a String, then casting it to a String (another NOP), converting the
> String to a set of Latin-1 (or Hebrew) bytes, and then lying to a String
> constructor by telling it the byte array is in UTF-8?
>
> Even if nameTextField is not a String, there's an awful lot of conflicting
> machinations going on here.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something...
>
> - Chuck
>
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