Nikola Stefanovski wrote: > hello. > > i'm working with cyrillic characters and i can't get them to show ok. > i'm working on win2000 and i've tried tomcat versions 3.2.3, 3.3a and 4.0.1. > the page directive is specified as: > > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=windows-1251" > pageEncoding="windows-1251"%> > > this makes the static content of the jsp appear correctly, but the strings > retrieved through an expression (<%=bean.getString()%>) are just > question-marks. if i take out the page attribute, the browser shows some > funny characters as it doesn't recognise the encoding. but if i then switch > to cyrillic (windows) encoding manually, everything appears fine. > i can't figure out where the catch is, any help?
Sounds like you got something wrong in the database part of your web application. From what you've said, I can only conclude that what your JSP/Servlet reads is a totally incorrect string. Java supports only UNICODE, as it's internal character encoding. So, if you have an architecture like this: RDBMS <-> JDBC <-> JRE <-> Tomcat <-> Servlet(JSP) <-> HTTP then JDBC must read characters INTO the Unicode encoding. ServletResponse class will translate Unicode into specified HTTP encoding. Given your description of the problem, I'd say you have CP-1251 encoded text that gets just pasted into Unicode. This is irregular, since CP-1251 is not getting translated into proper Unicode characters. I'd say you have wrong setup of your DB. I've had similar problems with PostgreSQL and Tomcat, my data was CP-1250 and I was forcing it as Unicode. My problems went away when I translated CP-1250 into Unicode on the DB side and set DB encoding to UTF-8. I believe things would be OK if I switched to any other supported encoding of the DB. I'd say you have the same problem as I did - DB was of one encoding and data of the other. Nix. P.S. I'm on a vacation for the next ten days, so I won't be answering my mails. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
