RE: Q:how to remove charset from HTTP responce to allow browser use a browser selected charset?

[Mark]

Hi Rick,
Yes my data comes from different locales I should say it's a legacy
data. I have no ability co convert it to UTF-8 right now.

response.setContentType("text/html;charset=..."); mess up the not
UTF-8 output, I'm getting ???s instead of a valid data.

I think I'll go with request.setCharacterEncoding(encoding);

Crossing my fingers...

Mark.
--- Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>   Can you talk a little about what the data is.. Just form data
> from
> different locales?
> I store all my data in UTF-8 and just instruct the page encoding to
> be the
> same (UTF-8) and I'm able to handle input and display of whatever
> people
> enter. Had a few odd things to overcome to get it working like,
> 
> JSP: I had to save the actual JSP file in UTF8 otherwise I couldn't
> get it
> to serve the page with UTF8 properly.. This started after Tomcat
> 5.0.16 or
> something like that.  
> 
> Servlet: don't think I had to do anything wild.. Just set the
> charset before
> you do anything with the output stream, including just getting a
> handle to
> the stream writer.  Set the contenttype first.
>     response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
> 
> Depending on what you are reading from and such. You may also want
> to set
> some Java ARGs when starting Tomcat... Like:
> -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
> -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8
> 
> Not sure if this is relevant, but hope it helps,
> 
> Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Posted At: Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:13 PM
> Posted To: Tomcat Dev
> Conversation: Q:how to remove charset from HTTP responce to allow
> browser
> use a browser selected charset?
> Subject: Re: Q:how to remove charset from HTTP responce to allow
> browser use
> a browser selected charset?
> 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> In my case servlet generates an output, so no JSP for now...
> Can I do it using filters? Or define and store user's prefs with
> encoding
> outside of tomcat and  in the session and use if it's exists in the
> session?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Mark.
> 
> --- Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Mark wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > In my application users enter data using different languages.
> > > The problem I'm facing is the browser sets the page encoding
> > always
> > > to ISO-8859-1. (I guess this is default based on server OS)
> > > 
> > > User can change encoding on the page (Browser settings) and 
> > > everything looks OK but only for one page. On the next page
> > encoding
> > > is back to ISO-8859-1.
> > > Is there any way to instruct tomcat not to send the page
> > encoding?
> > 
> > If you are using JSPs, no. The spec requires that the charset is
> set.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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