I ended up figuring out the real problem in the end. (Hope this helps
anyone faced with the same situation)
Firstly I was blaming Struts2 when it was actually innocent. When I
created the test JSP I did not see that Eclipse had added
automatically the tag <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> which of course meant the
request would be UTF-8 encoded.
I also created an interceptor in Struts2 and was able to see the
request variables and they were not being encoded correctly.
So the problem was with GlassFish 2.1. It was then just a matter of
following Cristian's steps and adapting them for GlassFish.
1) Set encoding of requests to GlassFish 2.1 by adding the following
to your sub-web.xml file. No need for a filter.
<sun-web-app>
<locale-charset-info default-locale="">
<locale-charset-map locale="" charset=""/>
<parameter-encoding default-charset="UTF-8"/>
</locale-charset-info>
</sun-web-app>
2) In web.xml put the following (or else you need to put <%@ page
pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> at the top of every single JSP in your app)
<jsp-config>
<!-- UTF-8 as the default JSP encoding -->
<jsp-property-group>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
<page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
</jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>
3) In every JSP you I have the following typical <meta> tag inside <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Cheers,
Carl.
Quoting Cristian Peraferrer <corellia...@gmail.com>:
In my application also used the 'struts.i18.encoding=UTF-8' but I had
the same problem. But I found a way to get it to work.
This way you are only telling struts that has to use UTF-8. But you
also need to tell to your Applications Container
(Tomcat for example) that you want UTF-8.
1. Set the URI encoding of Tomcat's server.xml configuration file. Set
URIEncoding="UTF-8" in your http/https connectors:
<!-- Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 80 -->
<Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8" acceptCount="100"
connectionTimeout="20000"
disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150"
minSpareThreads="25" port="80" redirectPort="443"/>
2. Set a custom filter to configure POST requests use UTF-8:
<!-- To get POST requests as UTF-8 -->
<filter>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>path.to.your.filter.SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
Tomcat already comes with such an example filter of
SetCharacterEncodingFilter.
3. Also in my application's web.xml I have set that JSPs use UTF-8
as a default:
<jsp-config>
<!-- UTF-8 as the default JSP encoding -->
<jsp-property-group>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
<page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
</jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>
4. In every JSP you I have the following typical <meta> tag inside <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
I hope it will help.
Cristian.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM, carl ballantyne
<carl.ballant...@cast-info.es> wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have an app with form fields and when submitting them to my Struts 2
actions the values are getting garbled. For example "españa" becomes
"espa?".
I think the problem is with Struts because when I create a basic jsp page
and submit back to itself and display the form field - it works fine.
I have tried setting struts.i18n.encoding=UTF-8 in the struts.properties
file and the struts.xml file to no avail. Has anyone used this with success?
I have searched the forums and it seems to me that people have to resort to
custom filters to workaround the problem.
Cheers,
Carl.
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