Hi Chris,
Can you reproduce this in normal JSP ( without oracle ) ? Can you send me
a small webapp where I can reproduce it ? Does it happens in 3.3 too ?
I am trying to solve (most) I18N bugs and problems for 3.3, it's very
tricky but can be done :-)
Costin
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Chris Halverson wrote:
> I'm running Tomcat 3.2.1 on a Solaris box JDK 1.3
> and using ECS1.4.1 for generating HTML
>
> I can save CJKV characters to my back end Oracle db, retrieve them,
> and display them if I'm using a servlet. Doesn't matter whether I use ECS
> or string handling. The browser recognizes that I'm sending in UTF-8
> encoding
> and handles the characters just fine.
>
> However when I use the same code to get the data from the DB and run it
> through a JSP page I get gobbledygook.
>
> A couple of other factors
> 1. Yes I'm setting the contentType to "text/html; charset=UTF-8" in the
> Page Directiive
> 2. Yes the browser is set to use the UTF-8 encoding.
> 2. Yes I realize that the jsps are compiled into a servlet but while
> looking at the jsp compiled java src file
> it appears that the servlet uses a specialized class JspWriter to
> handle printing to the output stream.
> 3. ECS had a similar issue in previous versions. There are some tricky
> issues with how streams are handled
> so that you don't run into implicit and screwy character encoding
> issues.
>
> I would appreciate any feedback, I'm going to dig through the Tomcat source
> to see if I can find the root problem
> and would hate to do that if there was an easy answer that I'm missing.
>
> Thanks.
> Chris Halverson
>
> Christopher R. Halverson
> nCube
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Never underestimate the ability of any human to delude themselves,"
> "and convince others their delusion is absolute"
>
>
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