we are running a tomcat instance that uses common jsps for all languages. If no encoding is set in the http-header tomcat 4.1.29 sets iso-8859-1 by default. Arabic users must then configure their browsers themselves (unacceptable).
(1) If I set the encoding in the jsp like this: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1256"%> everything is fine. But as I told, our jsps are multilingual.
(2) If I set the encoding in the jsp like this: <% response.setContentType("text/html;charset=windows-1256"); %> the results are just question marks. The same thing happens if the arabic text is not hardcoded in the jsp but comes from a varable.
Have you tried using: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=windows-1256" />
Does this trigger the browser to display the text properly? If so, you might consider adding this for some languages (like Arabic).
-chris
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