Hi
I wrote simple classes, which can help with encoding problem in servlets
http://servlets.chat.ru
May be it will be useful for somebody.
Vyacheslav Pedak
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: Character encoding problem review
> > What a servlet request really needs is a setCharacterEncoding()
> > concept.
>
> That sounds reasonable to me. We haven't made much progress though
> because it only solves a portion of the problem. The open question has
> been, should we bite off a little more and have a way to more easily
> figure out what the charset should be? For example, use the session or
> hidden form fields to keep track?
>
> I suspect not.
>
> Using the session doesn't appeal since it falsely assumes the client
> would only use one charset -- I could easily see someone browsing a site
> in two languages to compare results.
>
> Using hidden form fields (as discussed in p. 390 of my book) is the
> most reliable way, but considering how many ways there are to write the
> <form> from a servlet/JSP I don't think we could have much
> infrastructure to help there.
>
> So it leaves us with nothing but a helper method, something that you
> call once to simplify how getParameter() behaves. Well, it's better
> than nothing. We should add it to the list of things to consider for
> Servlets 2.3.
>
> In fact, I could add a com.oreilly.servlet.ParameterParser
> setCharacterEncoding() method so that this would work for older
> versions of the Servlet API too. What do people think of that?
>
> -jh-
>
>
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