My problem (see: Bug in ServerPages Generator ??) could be related to this.
If I declare some string in Java within XSP, I have to use unicode for (in my case) french characters. I now experience the same problems with data coming from my database. I think it could also be VM related (I'm using 1.4.2_03 *i think*) or the JDBC driver. I do not have the problem on OSX, but I connect to the database using the mydatabase?charSet=iso-8859-1 dburl. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Winnall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 6 maart 2004 23:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-X] Serious Encoding Problems (VM Bug?) I had a similar problem storing German text in a Postgresql database under Mac OS X. I discovered that 1) Java stored data in the database in UTF-8; 2) Java does not necessarily read Strings in the format you would expect. I populated the database from a Microsoft Excel source using a Java program and POI. I converted the strings from POI to whatever Java uses internally using the following function: private static String toJava( String cp1252 ) { try { return new String( cp1252.getBytes(), "Cp1252" ); } catch( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace( System.err ); } return cp1252; //dummy value to keep the compiler happy: we never get here } The Postgresql JDBC put the stuff into the database in UTF-8 format. Perhaps the MySQL JDBC does something similar. The Mac seems to prefer something called Mac OS Roman to ISO 8859-1. I have decided to use UTF-8 as "lingua franca" and hope that Deli or something similar will allow me to generate whatever the client actually wants. I didn't have to fiddle with the JVM parameters. Perhaps this helps you... Cheers Steve On 5 Mar 2004, at 17:42, Alexander Schatten wrote: > Alexander Schatten wrote: > >> >> JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1' >> > I read the Sun documentation now, and extended this to: > > -Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1 -Duser.language=de -Duser.country=DE > -Duser.variant=MAC > > > additionally, > > -- the LANG=de_DE.iso-8859-1 > -- the two encoding init params in web.xml are iso-8859-1 > > > It still does not work to send and retrieve german umlauts from Cocoon > to mysql... (mentioned again: the same cocoon webapp works without > problems on an english RedHat 9 server) > > > now I really have no more ideas... > > > please, any other comments? > > > thanks > > > Alex > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
