On 01/09/2011 03:41, David Wall wrote: > I'm trying to track down a character encoding issue that I've been > having, but don't really understand. Hopefully one of you will know what > the answer is.
I suspect you need: <%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> at the start of your JSP. .java files are written using UTF-8 by default so if what you see there is wrong then the original .jsp file was read with the wrong encoding. Tomcat determines the encoding based on a number of factors. For the details see line 326 onwards of http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/jasper/compiler/ParserController.java?view=annotate The short version is if it is XML, it uses the encoding defined in the XML doc, if it isn't XML it uses the value of pageEncoding. The fall-back is ISO-8859-1. > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" session="true" > isELIgnored="true" %> You'll still need this to tell the browser to use UTF-8 to display the data. > So I figured it was the default character encoding of the JVM causing me > some grief. I checked and the default on my Windows PC is Cp1252. But > when I change this with the JVM argument -Dfile.encoding=UTF8, I am no > better off. That is expected. file.encoding is not always read/write and should never be relied upon to fix any encoding problems. HTH, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
