I wonder if it is the combi of linux AND websphere. any chance to test it with linux/tomcat OR websphere/windoze ?
-M On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Ian Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi we have an application using Trinidad (live version uses 1.0.4 but the > problem seems to persist in 1.0.9). > > A page contains a text field into which free text can be entered. > > Everything (apparently) works fine on Tomcat and windows the user types a > value into the field which may contain a UK currency symbol £ (pound sign) > which is correctly round tripped both on the PPR and non PPR submissions. > > In Websphere on linux the behaviour is different and the pound sign followed > by the next character disappears! > > I thought this sounds like a character encoding issue so I used a proxy to > examine the submissions > > If the JSP page contains the following definition: > > <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> > > Then the PPR triggered submission contains the following unencoded text: > > ... id_reviewSubForm:ReviewNeeds=£12345 alkjslkjaslj £2932929 > asasd... > > And the non PPR submission contains UTF-8 encoded text with the leading %C2 > before the %A3 double byte pair for the pound sign: > > ... 3AReviewNeeds=%C2%A312345+alkjslkjaslj+%C2%A3292929... > > Changing the page to iso-8859-1 changes the encoding for the full submission > to the single character %A3 encoding, but has no effect on the PPR > submission. > > ...3AReviewNeeds=%A312345+alkjslkjaslj+%A32932929+asasd... > > With either encoding the pound sign disappears from the page on the next > render apparently after the full submission (ie navigate away and back) > > This looks like something somewhere is not interpreting/applying the > encodings correctly? > > Shouldn't the submission from the PPR be encoded? > > I notice that the form does not specify the accept-charset? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Ian > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1703 - Release Date: 02/10/2008 > 07:46 > > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
