Assuming you're talking about a JSP (and not a static HTML page), try doing this at
the top of your JSP file:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
Or
response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
(these are equivalent, if memory serves me correctly).
I've always been a little unsure as to how the browsers handle differences in the HTTP
header and HTTP-EQUIV, but I guess your example shows that it's using the HTTP header
(the default is ISO-8859-1). Althought, it might be browser-dependent. I always just
make sure they match.
Another thing to look out for...if you're handling posted form data, make sure you
call request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8") before doing the request.getParameter
calls. There might be other ways to handle this, depending on your servlet container.
I think Tomcat requires the call to request.setCharacterEncoding, but I know that
iPlanet 6 doesn't support that call. For iPlanet 6, you have change a configuration
file to tell it you want posted data to be interpreted as UTF-8. This is legacy HTTP
stuff...there's no standard way for a POST to contain the character set of the data
(the web application just has to know).
Allen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chaitanya Pallapothula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Internationalization Problem
>
>
> Hi
> I have been working on Internationalization and during
> that process I encountere this strange problem.
> My server is sending the right characters(Russian) to
> the browser. And also I have put this tag "<META
> HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"
> CONTENT="text/html;charset=utf-8">" in the head pasrt
> of my out put.
>
> The problem is browser cannot render the characters
> correctly. And when I see the view -> Encoding menu of
> the browser "Western Europian(Windows)" was selected.
> If I manually change that to UTF-8 it paints the
> correct characters.
>
> So I added the code(socument.chatset="utf-8") to force
> the browser to select UTF-8 as encoding. This time the
> encoidng was selected as UTF-8 and still the browser
> doesnt paint the characters correctly. If I click on
> view->Encoding->UTF-8 manually(Though utf-8 is
> selected by default). It paints the characters
> correctly.
>
> I am confused with this kind of behaviour. I am using
> tomcat4.1.12 as my servlet engine and web server. And
> also I am using struts framework(tag lib also).
>
> Note: When I set the charset in the response. The
> server doesnt send the right characters to the
> browser. If I dont set any charset in the response
> header, server sends the right charset to the browser.
>
>
> I am also confused whether the problem is browser or
> the server.
>
> Any help would be greatly apreciated.
> Thanks
> Chaitanya
>
>
>
>
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