Problems =?windows-1252?Q?w=3Fth_character_convers=3Fon?=

[Gus Heck]

So I have been prototyping stuff for a project in struts and I decided 
on a whim to see how well it handled unusual international text. So I 
swapped over to a Turkish keyboard which produces several quite unusual 
characters and typed in a couple place names I know give most programs 
fits because they contain a capital dotted I which looks like this: I. 
(set your encoding to Turkish if necessary to view it, it should look 
like a capital i with a dot above it)

What I got back when the results of the form entry were displayed was 
İ

I am pleased to see that nothing in struts, or elsewhere in my program 
actually died but it would be just slightly cooler if it actually came 
back with İ (which renders correct, at least in Mozilla). The 
problem is that İ appears to be what is stored in the database, 
(MySQL 4.0) and it gets re-escaped on the way back out. (the MySQL shell 
does funny things with the double dotted u (ü)and c (ç) with circumflex 
but those are at least recorded straight up, and not escaped in either 
direction. I did some searching and found this:

http://www.faqchest.com/prgm/tomcat-l/tmct-01/tmct-0111/tmct-011153/tmct01112715_24444.html

but that didn't seem to solve the problem. I'm sure this has been solved 
already, I just can't find it. Support for turkish or for that matter 
any other language is not critical to my project but if there is a not 
too painful solution it would be nice to drop it in.

-Gus



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