That's got it. I added it to the FAQ on the wiki.
Thanks, David! Wish I'd been smart enough to ask this a week ago!
Chas.
David Pollak wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Please make sure you've got this method in your Boot.scala class:
>
> /**
> * Force the request to be UTF-8
> */
> private def makeUtf8(req: HttpServletRequest) {
> req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8")
> }
>
> And also in the boot method, put:
> LiftRules.early.append(makeUtf8)
>
> By default, various app servers (Tomcat is the worst) does not use
> UTF-8... I mean WTF... the web is UTF unless otherwise specified.
>
> Anyway... please give that a try and let me know if it works.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Derek Chen-Becker
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> OK, I can replicate this in our PocketChange app (also going against
> a PostgreSQL DB). Let me dig a bit.
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Charles F. Munat <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> This might help, but I don't think I was clear. I have an online
> form.
> My clients enter text into it. Their text has characters like a
> c with a
> cedilla. That text gets saved into a PostgreSQL database (UTF-8)
> varchar
> field via JPA/Hibernate.
>
> Then I pull it back out and dump it into a template, and it
> comes out
> gibberish. If I try using ç instead, I get &cedil;
> back out.
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> "name" -> SHtml.text(thing.name <http://thing.name>, thing.name
> <http://thing.name> = _, ("size", "40"))
>
> If I enter "cachaça" in the field, I get cachaça back out. The
> weird
> thing is that sometimes when I copy and paste text from another
> document
> into the form, it works. But if I use the keyboard, it fails
> every time.
>
> I'll play around with this. Thanks.
>
> Chas.
>
> Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> > Oops, forgot scala.xml.Unparsed, too:
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>a{ scala.xml.Unparsed("ç") }b</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
> >
> > That one might be what you're looking for.
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Derek Chen-Becker
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think it depends on how you're embedding them in the XML:
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>açb</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>a{"ç"}b</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>a&ccedil;b</span>
> >
> > scala> val m = <span>a{"ç"}b</span>
> > m: scala.xml.Elem = <span>açb</span>
> >
> > That last one was input using dead keys (alt+,) on my
> linux (USA
> > International with dead keys) layout. Let me know if this
> doesn't
> > help; if not, could you send the code/template that's
> having issues?
> >
> > Derek
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Charles F. Munat
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a site that uses a lot of "special" characters
> (a remarkably
> > biased description, since there is nothing "special"
> about accented
> > characters to the people who use them daily). In
> particular, I
> > need the
> > c with cedilla and the n with the tilde.
> >
> > These characters are being input to a database
> (UTF-8) via an online
> > form, then spit back out onto the page.
> >
> > It's a fucking disaster. Apparently, everything goes
> through the xml
> > parser, which is great, except when I try to enter
> these as entity
> > references, such as ç, the parser changes & to
> & and
> > I get
> > the literal ç back out again.
> >
> > When I type ç using the keyboard (or copy and paste
> it from a
> > page or a
> > text editor), I get gibberish.
> >
> > Anyone know the trick to getting around this? I need
> everything
> > from e
> > acute to e grave to trademark and registered
> trademark symbols,
> > and I
> > need to enter them this way.
> >
> > Thanks for any help. If I can get this to work, I'll
> add an
> > explanation
> > to the wiki.
> >
> > Chas.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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