Hi.
Try, something like this:
param = new String(param.getBytes("8859_1"), "SJIS");
cheers,
-seiju
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Pan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 9:40 PM
Subject: Weird problem with encoding in JSP
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with displaying Japanese characters (read from a database)
> in JSP, and I can really use some pointers!!
>
> ================================
> Set-up:
>
> 1) I have used this:
> <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS" %>
> on the first line of the page, and
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">
> in the header section.
>
> 2) I have both static Japanese characters (in the HTML) and dynamic ones
> (generated from database-reads).
>
> ================================
> Results:
>
> The static Japanese characters are displayed correctly, but the generated
> ones are garbage. Nothing happens when I try to manually change the
> encoding to Shift_JIS in the browser (say, encoding->Japanese
> (Shift_JIS) ).
>
> What I tried:
> 1) Remove the first page directive.
> => This caused all Japanese characters to be displayed as ???'s, BUT, BUT,
> when I manually change the encoding, all of them suddenly display
> correctly.
>
> 2) Changed the page directive to using charset=ISO-8859-1 AND, AND, add
> another line right below it:
> response.setContentType("text/html; charset="Shift_JIS");
>
> (I read that the page directive tells how the page is encoded, and
> response.setContentType tells the browser what encoding to use.)
>
> This gave me garbage all over, both the static Japanese AND the dynamic.
>
> 3) Keeping the set-up from (2), reverse the charset options
>
> <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset="Shift_JIS" %>
> <% response.setContentType("text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"); %>
>
> This gives me the same output as the original problem.
>
> ================================
>
> What I actually want is for the page to display correctly, using the
> encoding automatically, without the user having to manually set the
> encoding. How do I achieve that other than what's mentioned above??
>
> The database data is correct: I have telnetted to the machine from Windows,
> and viewed the data from the database. The data is displayed correctly.
>
> My environment is this: Apache/Tomcat 4.0.1, Red Hat Linux, Java 1.3, with
> a pack of Java Beans (NOT EJB's) using SQL to access the database, MySQL.
>
> NOTE: What drivers me NUTS is this - static Japanese displays properly, BUT
> dynamic ones don't. WHY???? Do I have to change the encoding of the "out"
> writer or something??
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> James
>
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