It's most likely an issue of where you got the data to load into your
hashtable in the first place. For example, if it's loaded from a
database, you must ensure that your database understands that it should
use Big5 for those characters as well.
Craig
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, yilmaz wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:23:33 +0800
> From: yilmaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: charset problem in java beans
>
> thanks Craig,
>
> Craig wrote :
> >
> > It sounds like you might be working too hard :-).
>
> how did you understand? :)
>
> >
> > Internally, Java keeps all String values in Unicode. When you actually
> > write the response, it will be converted according to the character
> > encoding you specify on the page.
>
> theoretically you are right, but unfortunately in real applications , it
> seems it is not like that.
>
> >
> > If you're using JSP you would put this at the top of your page:
> >
> > <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=Big5" %>
> >
>
> it is already at the top of my every single jsp page.
>
> > and then write out the values something like this:
> >
> > <%= sb.getItemname(itemid) %>
>
>
> i already have this too in my code,too.
>
> >
> > From a servlet, the important issue is to set the content type and
> > character encoding *before* you get the PrintWriter:
> >
> > response.setContentType("text/html;charset=Big5");
> > PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
> > ...
> > writer.print(sb.getItemname(itemid));
> >
> > In either case, Java will perform the Unicode->Big5 conversion for you.
>
> then why am i keeping on getting garbled symbols instead of traditional
> chinese chars?
> by the way, other than the strings retreived from the bean, other big5 chars
> are displyed correctly.
> it seems that the problem occurs when the data is stored in the hahtable or
> when it is retreived.
> thanks again for your help.
> best regards :)
> >
> > Craig McClanahan
> >
> >
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