Hi,
You should compile the java classes with ISO-8859-9 encoding.
Look at the -encoding flag of the 'javac' compiler.
In compilation the 8-byte characters in strings are converted to unicode
characters.
By default the encoding is probably ISO-8859-1.
Regards,
T�nu
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Character Encoding Problem
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I know that this is a popular (!?) problem in tomcat. Dur
> despite my efforts I could not find any solution. Here it goes:
>
> We have jsp page in encoding type ISO-8859-9. With the line
> <%@ page contentType = "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-9" %>
> we define the encoding type of the document.
>
> Result:
> The strings in the jsp file are encoded correctly, like
> - The text in html
> - the text written inside jsp code between <%, %>
>
> Problem:
> The strings that are recevied from a class, read from a file,
> inside a constant are not encoded correctly.
>
> <%= "Pretend to be a ISO8859-9 string" %> is encoded correctly but,
> inside a class let's say we have
> String x = "Pretend to be a ISO8859-9 string";
> then
> <%= myClass.c %> is encoded wrong with many ?'s
>
> The problem is not in JVM/JDK, I think, as I read a file and
> write the content into another file, both files are the same
> with no loss in encoding.
>
> Also the encoding problem is there when I include files with
> <jsp:include ..
> If I include the file with <%@ include .. the problem is
> not there .. But I really need to use <jsp:include ..
>
> Can anyone solve my problem ?? ..
>
> Arif Tumer ..
>
