RE: correct use of umlauts

[William Brogden]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Sösemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 10:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: correct use of umlauts
> 
> 
> Hello, who can help,
> 
> 
> I have the following code fragment in my xsp page, but I 
> always get an error
> because of the use of german umlaut entities like Ö.
> 
>                           <xsp:logic>
>                                 String keyword = <esql:get-string
> column="k.word"/>;
>                                 String firstletter = 
> keyword.substring(0,6);
>                                 String sortable = keyword;
> 
> 
>                                 if(     firstletter == "&Ouml;" ||
> firstletter == "&ouml;"

Probably you want  firstletter.equals( "&Ouml;" ) NOT ==


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