Re: Why does MyFaces escape national characters?

[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

I would like to ask again: Can anyone tell me why MyFaces converts 
unicode characters to their &#xyz; equivalents when we invoke

facesContext.getResponseWriter().writeAttribute("id", myName);
Here myName contains a string which contains a unicode character 'ae' 
that is the equivalent of æ.

I am outputting UTF-8 XML in which all unicode characters are acceptable 
except XML special characters like < and &, so I do not understand why 
'ae' is converted to &#230; when 'ae' is itself legal XML.

Randahl






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