I have a Form which is displayed in UTF-8. The form
contains just one editable field, namely
<textarea name="test"></textarea>.
When I submit this to a JSP:
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I can extract the value of the string using,
<%
String s = request.getParameter("test");
%>
I then write the value of s to a UTF-8 file with this
<%
PrintWriter o = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new
FileOutputStream("output.html"), "UTF-8"));
o.write(msg);
o.flush();
o.close();
%>
Opening the file "output.html" with a browser, I
see that the original UTF-8 text is still perfectly
intact and encoded as recognizable UTF-8.
Hooray, it works.
But when I submit the form to a servlet
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If I submit the form to a servlet, and try the same code,
String s = request.getParameter("test");
PrintWriter o = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new
FileOutputStream("output.html"), "UTF-8"));
o.write(msg);
o.flush();
o.close();
Then the text is no longer recognizable.
Same if I try to output 's' to the browser (after
setting ContentTYpe to text/html;charset=uTF-8)
It WILL however work if I do the following:
String s = new String(request.getParameter("test").getBytes("8859_1"), "UTF-8");
This is screwing with my head.
First off, I thought that all JSP become servlets
anyway so there should be no discrepancy between the first
and second sets of code.
Secondly, Tomcat seems pretty inconsistent
in that "s=request.getParameter()" works in a JSP but
not in a servlet.
Has anybody else noticed this ?
Or can anybody account for this behaviour ?
Thank you,
Stephen.
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