----- Original Message ----- From: "thorsten schmid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: encoding problem with xslt
Hi Thorsten, <snip/> > ================================================================ > output: > <a href="frameset.xsp?filename=foo.xml&searchstring=Integrations%C3%A4mter"> > Integrationsämter > </a> . > ================================================================ > This output is certainly correct. URIs generated via HTML output method of Xalan or Saxon are UTF-8 encoded. (and äöü are 2 bytes wide when using UTF-8) This is recommended by RFC 2718. The problem is not Cocoon, but the Servlet-Spec. Tomcats default encoding is ISO-8859-1. So your URI ist decoded with ISO-8859-1. This obviously breaks your Cocoon servlet later. Since HTTP protocol does not send encoding with the URI, there is also no chance for Tomcat to detect the encoding of the URI. And even worse Request.setEncoding() affects only parameters (GET request, POST is immune, since during a POST the encoding is send by the browser) You have three options: Set encoding of your servlet container to UTF-8. For Tomcat you do this by setting CATALINA_OPTS to "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8". But beware, that this might break your existing plain text files, which are most probably ISO-8859-1 encoded. With XML files this is no problem, as long as you specify their encoding correctly. Second option is to manually recode the URI within Cocoon via some custom code. But this is somewhat "hacky". Third option and probably best, is to use a Servlet filter in front of Cocoon which does the transformation of character encodings for you. This way, you don't have to break text files read and written by the Tomcat JVM, and you can still use full UTF-8 within your URIs. If anyone has some more ideas on this topic (non-ISO-8859-1 characters within URIs), I would greatly appreciate some more input. Conclusion for me is to avoid such characters in URIs. But this does not get easily into the heads of our customers and users. (e.g. file names) Best Regards, Jens -- jens.lorenz at interface-projects dot de interface:projects GmbH \\|// Tolkewitzer Strasse 49 (o o) 01277 Dresden ~~~~oOOo~(_)~oOOo~~~~ Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
