On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 15:35, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Hi. > My knowledge of java and Tomcat is limited, so I may be off-base here. > But I have also has occasional issues with Tomcat and non-US character sets > on various Windows platforms. > Just for information, what is the basic Windows language version of the 3 > Windows servers you are using ? > I mean, is for example the Windows XP system some arabic version, while the > 2003 and 2000 servers are basic English/US-Windows ? > > The reason for my question : when a Java JVM starts under Unix/Linux, it > takes its language settings from the "locale" of the process it is starting > under. > You can change these settings, by changing the locale of the process, then > starting the JVM (and Tomcat e.g.). > For a Windows JVM however, there is no such "locale", and I've never quite > figured out where the JVM takes its language settings (including the default > charset). I suppose it is from the Windows environment somewhere though. > I have a strong suspicion that your problem is in that area.
You shouldn't need to mess with the Java locale. A webapp can handle text in different languages/alphabets simultaneously, no matter what the default settings are for the server OS or JVM. I was able to get character encodings to work correctly on Windows XP by following the recommendations in the FAQ that Mark pointed out (http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding) and making sure the database was storing text as UTF-8. But I haven't tried other versions of Windows. -- Len --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
