You know what, I was using the template. As long as I added
<% request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); %>
in the template. It works now.
Thanks everybody
Billy Ng
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From: "Jing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: How to set charset UTF-8
> We got a similar problem. At the very beginning, it looks like the
> processContent() method in the request processor would do
> the job for you if the ControllerConfig is set correctly. But the
> story is more complicated than I thought.
>
> It looks to me the container has the right to override the content
> type and/or the character encoding. From the JSP Specification,
> we have some statements like "A JSP container may use some
> implementation-dependent heuristics and/or structure to
> determine what the expected character encoding of a JSP page is..."
>
> The default implementations from Tomcat, OC4J, and SunOne are different.
> <jsp:directive.page pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" contentType="text/html"/>
>
> is used in every JSP page. The Tomcat 4.1.24 generates a statement
> setContentType("text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"); // good
> The OC4J 9.0.3 generates the statement
> setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8"); // something not expected
> The SunOne App7 generates the statement
> setContentType("text/html"); // something shorter with warning message.
> The Resin 2.1.10 does the same as SunOne but without warning message.
>
> I am not sure what we are missing here. Anyway, we could not *force* them
> to produce the expected content type and the character encoding
> except on Tomcat.
>
> Jing
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>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Van Riper, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "'Billy Ng'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:30 PM
> Subject: RE: How to set charset UTF-8
>
>
> > > I added the following to test what encoding my Struts app is using
> > >
> > > <%
> > > response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
> > > System.out.println(response.getCharacterEncoding());
> > > %>
> > >
> > > But it still print out the "ISO-8859-1", why? How can I set
> > > the contentType to "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
> >
> > This is just a hunch, but, I suspect you can't change the character
> encoding
> > after you have started writing content to the stream. In that case, your
> > best bet is to do this at the very top of the JSP page:
> >
> > <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
> >
> > Also, there is another consideration if you are using Tiles. Again this
is
> > just a hunch, but, I suspect that you would have to have that directive
as
> > the first line of your Tiles master layout template JSP. The concept
> > mentioned above for a single page applies to a Tiles page generated
> > dynamically from multiple JSPs all writing to the same response stream.
> >
> > We ran into something like this using the Struts template custom tags
with
> > Struts 1.0 back in 2001. We were correctly setting the character
encoding
> > using the page directive on individual content JSPs, but, had left it
off
> > our master page layout template JSP. So, it never took until we tracked
> that
> > down. Duh!
> >
> > Hope this helps, Van
> >
> > Mike Van Riper
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.baychi.org/bof/struts
> >
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