Thank you Dave! My problem is now solved. But I had to do a bit more than just say that the pages are UTF-8. I think it does not matter whether I use the configuration of the Struts controller to do this or write it explicitly into each jsp.
As several people today had similar problems today here my solution (built on advice from many people): first I configured Struts to use UTF-8 (struts-config.xml: <controller contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" .../> then I told my forms to accept UTF-8 (html:form with acceptCharset="utf-8") (this is probably not necessary as the browser will send form data with the same encoding as the page, but is good for documentation) at last I installed a little filter on my container (Tomcat 5.0.x) which explicitly sets the encoding for each request and response to UTF-8. This proved to be the real solution. The filter was taken from Mike Gavaghan's very helpful article on End-to-end internationalization of Web applications (http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2004/jw-0524-i18n.html) Martin > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Harland, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. September 2005 12:15 > An: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: RE: Problem with characters > > > Make sure the jsp doing the posting has > > <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %> > > Dave. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Kindler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 September 2005 10:47 > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: AW: Problem with characters > > David, > > could you please be a bit more specific? > > Just now I have a very similar problem as LuKe. > I am using MySQl 4.1.10 and all tables are UTF-8. > Struts is configured to use UTF 8 (i. e. the controller > element in struts-config.xml says > contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"). > > This seems to work. My browsers (Firefox and IE6) decode the > pages as UTF-8. > > > BUT: when I enter text using a form (this is configured using > the charSet-attribute to html:form to accept > ISO-8859-1) IE6 garbles it while Firefox seems to work OK. > > Any hints? > > Martin > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Harland, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. September 2005 10:35 > > An: Struts Users Mailing List > > Betreff: RE: Problem with characters > > > > > > Change you encoding to UTF-8. > > > > What database are you using? > > > > Dave. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: lk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 07 September 2005 09:23 > > To: user@struts.apache.org > > Subject: Problem with characters > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with some characters. > > > > My application reads some forms and writes them in a db. > > > > On my test and developing environment everything works well. > > > > The problem comes out when I deploy the application on the > production > > server. > > > > When I fill in the form non English characters (for example > > the typical > > characters of the Italian language) they are read as "?". > > > > The strange thing is that in the same tomcat context there is an old > > no-struts application that works well. > > > > On this server Apache and Tomcat work together and this is the only > > difference from my test server. > > > > In both struts-config.xml and web.xml I put this encoding <?xml > > version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> > > > > Furthermore I use a tiles layout and in it I put: > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > > charset=iso-8859-1"> > > > > > > What could be the problem? > > > > LuKe > > > > > > > > -- > > Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: > > http://www.email.it/f > > > > Sponsor: > > Vuoi risparmiare sino al 70% sugli acquisti? 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