O'Meara AnnMarie wrote:
> I'm confused about what I've heard about internationalization with JSPs. What I
> want to do is write one JSP file, and read the character set and user-visible
> text from a ResourceBundle. This works with HTML templates, as long as the
> .properties files for the ResourceBundles are in the right codepage. (The HTML
> markup is in ASCII, no matter what character set the user-visible text uses.)
>
> But what I'm hearing on the one hand is that the JSP itself has to be compiled
> with the same character set or codepage as the user-visible text. That would
> mean that I would have to compile the JSP several times, once for each character
> set. Is this correct?
The JSP is compiled with the same character set as the text in the JSP. That's not
necessarily the same as the user-visible text. In your case, the JSP is compiled
with just the HTML tags.
Because you're reading the i18n text at runtime, it doesn't matter what the
JSP encoding is.
>
>
> The other, conflicting thing I have heard is that you don't have to recompile
> the JSP, but that you do have to create a special "out" writer (using Java
> embedded in the JSP) and tell it what character set or codepage to use. Is this
> correct?
Yes. More accurately, you just need to set response.setContentType:
<%@ page language=java contentType="text/html; charset=utf8" %>
<%
String encoding = "EUC_KR";
response.setContentType("text/html; charset=" + encoding);
%>
<html><body>
<p><%= grabSomei18nText() %>
...
</body></html>
In this case, the JSP page is parsed as utf8, but printed in EUC_KR. The JSP only
needs to be compiled once.
Scott Ferguson
Caucho Technology
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