Re: Why does MyFaces escape national characters?

[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

I did some more diggging at it is indeed MyFaces which provides the 
ResponseWriter. It is actually an instance of

org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.renderkit.html.HtmlResponseWriterImpl
The reason why it converts special characters in my output xml is that 
MyFaces never realises that I am outputting UTF-8. The code in this 
class directly states that if I am outputting UTF-8 it will not escape 
special characters since any character is supported in UTF-8, but if it 
cannot see that I am outputting UTF-8 it will do the escaping.

So how can I tell MyFaces that I am always using UTF-8?

Randahl



Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:
But is MyFaces not the system that provides the ResponseWriter? Or is 
it facelets?

Randahl


tetsuo wrote:
I think Facelets escapes special characters by default, at least when
they are in a template. But I don't know if it also affects the
programmatic API...




On 10/26/06, Randahl Fink Isaksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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,
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> Are you using a t:div?
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> 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
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