Hi there,So I'm sure there's someone out there who has met this problem and has found a solution, therefore, let me ask the source. We are dealing with an international web platform - many many languages. People submit forms in different languages and it all stored in a mySQL database. Basically, I'm having troubles getting UTF8 to work with said database. I have troubles at all levels - stripes and database.
Here's my set up:
- mySQL 5.1
- mysql-jdbc 5.1 (driver)
- tables - utf8
- LocalePicker is always forcing charset to UTF-8 in stripes
Here's the problem:
- User enters some characters into the form (chinese, russian,
hebrew....)
- ActionBean sticks it into the database and sends email.
- Fields are declared as Strings and nothing is done to the values
- When sticking to the database it will contain - ???? as values
- The output from the database obviously doesn't work
- When printing submitted value on page from ${actionBean.field} it
displays junk
I know that browsers send all forms to the servers in ISO-8859-1 encoding. In the good old days, or with plain servlets, I would always have to convert submitted values to UTF-8 with the following: new String(rs.getString(1).getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8"); From then on the value is in UTF-8
In Stripes, I think that the values come to ActionBeans in ISO-8859-1 since StringTypeConverter doesn't do anything. That's fine, I wrote my own converter for UTF using the logic from above. This solves the problem with printing submitted value on the page ${actionBean.field}; but if the value is still displayed in the form it is all grumbled as if it was ISO-8859-1 representation of UTF-8. That I don't understand.
As for storing UTF8 into mySQL - well, if someone can help me out it would be great since I can't get UTF8 string stored in the database without doing the UTF8 to ISO-8859-1 and back conversion while keeping tables at latin1 I would really appreciate it. The main question is Stripes.
I hope this whole rambling makes sense and someone has had this problem previously. Hopefully there was a solution.
Sincerely, Daniil
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