-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 André,
André Warnier wrote: > It is on the way through that servlet that they get "corrupted", unless > I start Tomcat with LC_CTYPE="iso-8859-1". What do the HTTP headers say when the file is served correctly versus when it is not? I suspect that the encoding is either set incorrectly or not set at all unless you specify LC_CTYPE. > So my question remains, I think : what could be going on in that servlet > so that : > - if LC_CTYPE is not set in the environment *of Tomcat* when it starts, > the upper iso-8859-1 characters in the pages are replaced by "?" > - if LC_CTYPE is set to "iso-8859-1" in the Tomcat environment when it > starts, then the pages delivered by the servlet are correct > ? My guess is that the magic servlet here is using the platform's default encoding in the HTTP headers, which may be incorrect for the static file in question. > I am not very qualified in Java, but could it be something like : > - the servlet reads those documents with some InputStream, without > specifying a character set or encoding Note that InputStreams are encoding-less. Sounds like semantics, but encodings only come into play with you are dealing with character-oriented streams which, in Java, are called Readers and Writers. Note that neither InputStream nor OutputStream have any methods that deal with the char data type. > and by default that means to use > Tomcat's idea of its default LC_CTYPE for those InputStreams ? > - or the servlet outputs the document via an OutputStream without > specifying an encoding etc.. I'll bet a binary stream of data is being sent (that is, with no interpretation or encoding) and that the JVM's default encoding is being advertised by the server in the HTTP headers. That would certainly cause the problem. I've found that the default encoding on my Linux box is something I've never heard of before: "file.encoding=ANSI_X3.4-1968". Since I have my server configured properly (and don't really serve much in the way of static content), the platform's default encoding doesn't matter: my preferred encoding (UTF-8) is always used. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjKntcACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAjWACgquvyCh3SDJdqBxPPx3+zOwQ4 z3QAoKL8C5k0ZI3B6Hl4GyuDcZrcnrRf =HPFJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
