Hi Odi,
It works now, thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ortwin Gl�ck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: HttpClient UTF-8 problem !!!
>
>
> Eric Chow wrote:
> >
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> > import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
> > import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;
> > import org.apache.commons.httpclient.cookie.*;
> > import org.apache.commons.httpclient.util.*;
> > import java.io.*;
> > import java.util.*;
> >
> >
> > public class TradSimUnicode {
> > private static String checkURL = "cgibin.erols.com";
> >
> >
> > public static void main(String argv[]) {
> >
> > HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
> >
> > try {
> >
> > HostConfiguration hc = new HostConfiguration();
> > hc.setHost(checkURL, 80, "http");
> > client.setHostConfiguration(hc);
> > client.getState().setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.COMPATIBILITY);
> >
> > check(client, '\u4e0e');
> >
> > } catch(Exception e) {
> > e.printStackTrace();
> > }
> > }
> >
> > public static void check(HttpClient client, char c) throws Exception
{
> >
> > String code = toFormat(c);
> > String s = unicodeToString(code);
> >
> >
> > PostMethod post = new
> > PostMethod("/mandarintools/cgi-bin/charlook.pl");
> >
> > // Prepare login parameters
> > NameValuePair v1 = new NameValuePair("searchmode",
"standard");
> > NameValuePair v2 = new NameValuePair("printtype", "utf8");
> > NameValuePair v3 = new NameValuePair("chartype", "trad");
> > NameValuePair v4 = new NameValuePair("ordering", "frequency");
> > NameValuePair v5 = new NameValuePair("display", "char");
> > NameValuePair v6 = new NameValuePair("display", "variants");
> > NameValuePair v7 = new NameValuePair("display", "unicode");
> > NameValuePair v8 = new NameValuePair("enctype", "utf8");
> > NameValuePair v9 = new NameValuePair("whatchar", s);
> > NameValuePair v10 = new NameValuePair("searchchar", "Search by
> > Character");
> >
> >
> > NameValuePair[] valPairs = { v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9,
> > v10 };
> >
> > post.setRequestBody(valPairs);
> >
> >
> > client.executeMethod(post);
> >
> > String resp = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
> >
> > System.out.write(resp.getBytes("UTF-8"));
> >
> > post.releaseConnection();
> > }
> >
> > public static String unicodeToString(String unicodeString) {
> > if (unicodeString == null) {
> > return null;
> > }
> >
> > StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
> >
> > StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(unicodeString, "\\u");
> >
> > while(tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
> > String token = (String)tokens.nextToken();
> >
> > char oneUnicodeChar = (char)Integer.parseInt(token, 16);
> >
> > buf.append(oneUnicodeChar);
> > }
> >
> > return buf.toString();
> > }
> >
> > public static String toFormat(int n){
> > String zeros = "000";
> > String body = Integer.toHexString(n);
> > return "\\u" + zeros.substring(0, 4-body.length()) + body;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > ============================================================
>
> Eric,
>
> I think you have not fully understood how Java handles Unicode.
> Basically you can get completely rid of your two methods unicodeToString
> and toFormat and just pass in the character as you are doing now without
> touching it:
>
> NameValuePair v9 = new NameValuePair("whatchar", String.valueOf(c));
>
> By default HttpClient uses ISO-8859-1 as the encoding for parameters
> passed into the POST method (which is not consistent with the GET method
> where UTF-8 is used by default by the way). If you whish to use UTF-8
> you must set the Content-Type header manually:
>
> post.addRequestHeader("Content-Type", FORM_URL_ENCODED_CONTENT_TYPE+";
> charset=UTF-8");
>
> hope that helps
>
> Odi
>
>
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