I am having trouble with character encoding in a WO application that
encodes all pages in UTF-8.
As instructed by "Practical WebObjects" I have added an Application
appendToResponse that sets the header to UTF-8. I've also added a
meta-tag for content-type.
Just to be paranoid, I added the UTF-8 setting code to
appendToResponse in Session and my component as well.
This works in an internally consistent way-- that is, I can enter
some Chinese text in a form field, store the text in the Application,
and display it in the page, and all looks OK, without having to
select the encoding in the browser. It also works if I select UTF-8
in the browser. This works for Safari, Firefox, Camino and Netscape,
(but not for MSIE 5.2.3, not that this is a serious problem). This is
all on Mac OS X. Also, when I fetch the page using cURL from the
command line, the content displays correctly.
I can even save the text in a VARCHAR field in FrontBase, fetch it
back and display it in the page, and it looks OK.
However, it is not stored as UTF-8. When displayed in
FrontBaseManager or when browsing data in EOModeler, it looks like
rubbish.
One suspicious thing is that when I display the request from the
WOContext, it says the form encoding is ISO8859_1.
Another problem is that in another WO project that uses Project
Wonder, the same setup does NOT work, even without the database. If I
enter Chinese text in a from field, it is stored in the Application
as rubbish an is displayed as rubbish.
I don't know enough about encoding to see if any particular string is
correctly encoded, other than by looking at it on the screen.
I have tried
er.extensions.ERXRequest.BrowserFormValueEncodingOverrideEnabled=false a
nd =true
Any ideas? I don't really care about the database format, as long as
it is consistent across all the pages and displays as it is entered
in a text field.
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