Re: Why does MyFaces escape national characters?

[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

Nope - I am outputting a div from my own custom component like this:
       writer.startElement("div", this);
       writer.writeAttribute("id", theId, null);

where the variable "theId" contains this string "Vandmaerke" in which 
'ae' is a single special Danish character.

Thus I can only suspect MyFaces to be responsible for the conversion. I 
am using MyFaces with facelets, but I presume the ResponseWriter is part 
of MyFaces and not Facelets and thus I posted the question here (correct 
me if I am wrong).

Randahl




Jeff Bischoff wrote:
Randahl,

Are you using a t:div?

Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:
According to the JSF1.1 spec section 6.4 the ResponseWriter 
implementation should be "performing
appropriate character encoding and escaping", but I think MyFaces 
seems to have taken this a bit too far. Not only does it escape 
characters which has a special meaning in XML, like the < character, 
it also escapes national characters like the Danish 'ae' character 
which it transforms to its escape equivalent ("&#230;"). This seems 
to me to be completely unnecessary when outputting unicode formatted 
XML, since unicode supports 'ae' and since 'ae' does not have a 
special meaning in XML.

This turns out to be a problem in my application of MyFaces because I 
would like to output something like this:

<div id="Vandm&#230;rke">

where the "&#230;" should in fact have been the danish letter 'ae'.

Can anyone elaborate on why MyFaces would do this and/or if this 
behavior can be configured to work otherwise?

Thanks

Randahl