Hi,
I don't know if this is the best solution. You can create a filter for
*.* in your web.xml, with the following piece of code:
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
Mohsen.
On Nov 16, 2007 4:44 PM, Tremal Naik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Tomcat users,
> I'm developing an application in Jboss 4.0.2, which uses Tomcat 5.5.9
> as web tier.
>
> I'm trying to make Tomcat decoding the request body with the correct
> encoding. I have problems with IE and Firefox as well. The html page
> has the meta tag:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
>
> all characters are displayed well in both browsers, the page encoding
> appears correctly set to UTF-8. The problems arises when I try to
> submit "strange" characters as currency symbols (euro, pound, yen,
> ...) in a form text box.
>
> Debugging Tomcat source, I see the following in the
> org.apache.catalina.connector.Request: the parseParameters() method
> tries to get the correct encoding:
>
> String enc = getCharacterEncoding();
>
> the ContentType.getCharsetFromContentType() tries to infer the correct
> character encoding from the request Content-Type header, but since it
> is not set it returns null:
>
> public static String getCharsetFromContentType(String type) {
> if (type == null) {
> return null;
> }
> int semi = type.indexOf(";");
> if (semi == -1) {
> return null;
> }
>
> Here the problem is the content type of the http request coming from
> the browser is as follows (as grabbed by an http tracer):
>
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> Hence, it doesn't contain any ";charset=utf-8" appended, as expected.
> The body looks to me correctly encoded in UTF-8 format.
>
> Thus, the parseParameters() parses the parameters with its default
> character encoding which is ISO-8859-1:
>
> parameters.setEncoding
> (org.apache.coyote.Constants.DEFAULT_CHARACTER_ENCODING);
>
> Now, I know this is not a Tomcat problem, but I don't know how to
> force the client to sent the correct information to the server. Any
> ideas how to solve this?
> It was nice also if I could set up Tomcat default encoding to UTF-8,
> without recompiling the source (I have some requirements on the
> Jboss/Tomcat: I can't use a modified or different version).
>
> By the way, I already tried to update the file
> $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml for UTF-8 support by connectors with
> the parameter URIEncoding="UTF-8".
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> --
> TREMALNAIK
>
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