On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:53 AM, Nisha Kumari wrote:
I am trying to implement internationalization for my site. But when I am
trying to enter some Hindi text in a text box (struts html:text) the
value I m getting in my action is not expected one. Getting some
corrupted value rather than Hindi entered text.
I have set charset to utf-8 in the jsp page. Do I need to do any thing
more?
This is a little off topic for this list, but you need to check that you
have handled all the encoding issues correctly. You need to declare
both the encoding of the actual JSP file and the encoding served to
browsers. Unfortunately, JSP defaults to ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8,
but it's relatively easy to handle using the @page directive at the top
of every JSP file.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] encoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%>
The encoding attribute specifies the actual encoding of the file (you
need to ensure your editor is actually saving in UTF-8). The
contentType attribute specifies the HTTP Content-Type header to be sent
to UAs. If the 2 declared encodings differ, then JSP will transcode it
before sending.
Ideally, there should be a way to set these as defaults in web.xml for
the application server, but I've never successfully found a way to do it.
You should then verify that the document received by browses is actually
encoded in UTF-8. If you've done the above correctly, it will be, but
check anyway.
Browsers will submit form data in the same encoding as the page. So
unless the user explicitly changes it from UTF-8, then it will be UTF-8.
Finally, you need to make sure your form processing on the server side
is actually accepting and interpreting the form submission as UTF-8. It
should do so if you added the @page directive correctly.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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