the tomcat admin webapp does not support umlauts (german ���, french ��
etc). I did some debugging through tomcat and struts code:
* the JSP pages contain a UTF-8 page header
<%@ page ... contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8" %>
* the browser then sends form input as "utf-8" to the web server
* struts does not know about the page encoding and transforms the bytes
from the browser into standard format,
umlauts are lost
* I added some test code, that converts the request parameter input to
UTF-8
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils
public static void populate(Object bean, String prefix, String suffix,
HttpServletRequest request)
....
properties.put(stripped,
readUtf8(request.getParameterValues(name)));
...
}
private static Object readUtf8(String[] strings) throws
ServletException {
String out[] = new String[strings.length];
for (int i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
try {
out[i] = new String(strings[i].getBytes(), "utf-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new ServletException("BeanUtils.populate", e);
}
}
return out;
}
* seems to work. Umlauts are handled correctly, but of course this is not
a solution
How could the application bean (e.g. org.apache.webapp.admin.users.UserForm) handle
the UTF-8 encoded form input? Or maybe there is a way to
configure struts to handle UTF-8 input correctly?
The problem appears in Tomcat 4.1.x and 5.x
Regards
Eckard
