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Christoph Lechleitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
05/11/2003 09:31 AM
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Subject: charset problems coming up during runtime
Hello together.
I have a really weird problem with charset handling concerning special
characters like German "umlaute" (i.e. ä, ö, ü) (it also concerns
characters from French and so on).
I have done extensive Google and list searches, but all information I
found handles installations that are unable to handle special characters
at all, but my problem is a bit different:
When Tomcat (4.1.27) starts, my applications handle umlauts absolute
correctly (i.e., an ä read from a file or a database is encoded correctly
as &aamp; by my encoding methods).
But, after some (mostly long) runtime, this changes and an ä is suddenly
dedected as "something completely different", forcing my methods to
replace it with a ? or a space.
Unfortunately, as the problem does never occur on a freshly started tomcat,
it is impossible to reproduce it reliable ;-<<
My observation and research results so far:
- The problem occurs before my encoding loop can do it's work, i.e.
an 'ä' in a String to be parsed does not match a constcant char 'ä'
any more, or in other words ...
somestring.charAt(someIndex) == 'ä'
is false althoug the character is an 'ä'.
This observation does also mean that no output filtering functionality
(which AFAIK I do not use) can be the "evil".
- As it happens with strings read from files as well as with strings
read from mysql databases, it seems to be a Tomcat or JRE(?) problem.
- As the problem does not exist with a "freshly" started Tomcat, the
general environment (language settings and so on) seem to be correct.
- In most cases, the problem starts after days or even weeks without
a tomcat restart, but sometimes it occurs only minutes or a few hours
after tomcat's start.
- It happens with several Sun JDKs from 1.3.1 up to all majar 1.4.x
releases, i.e, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2.
The software versions used are:
- Tomcat 4.1.x (currently I am using 4.1.27)
- SuSE Linux 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, kernels 2.4.*, optimized for Athlon family.
- I am not using any template-engine or filter-functions of tomcat
(as far as I understand it ;->>)
- System, filesystems, and all applications set to use ANSI respectively
ISO-8859-1 / ISO-8859-15, which share the same codes at least for all
legacy charachters and German Umlauts.
I am not sure if I should blame the JRE or SuSE or the compilers (jikes!?)
perhaps (instead of stealing your time), but if my problem is caused by
some kind of bug or perhaps by an undetected feature in either of these
software, this list is, by far, my best hope to find other victims ;;-))
Any Ideas?
Kind regards.
Christoph Lechleitner
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