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Java Forum / General / December 2005struts validator question marks in messages
hi.. i've written a small struts validator sample, but i type in the resources file anything in hebrew , it apprears in the validator messages as question marks. > hi.. > > i've written a small struts validator sample, > > but i type in the resources file anything in hebrew , it apprears in > the validator messages as question marks. You have an encoding problem somewhere. Java fully supports unicode, and I think when you're working with Unicode, it's generally easiest to use UTF-8 or UTF-16. Make sure whatever configuration files you're working with are encoded in a encoding that your program can understand (e.g. UTF-16), and make sure whatever you're using to view the validator messages (some sort of console?) can read the encoding that your program is emitting. - Oliver thanks, i allready figured out the eclipse espcially encodes propery files with i-8859- or something, and i have to change it to windows-1255, it's not only the validator that create question marks but just reading property files with bean:write. i'm using amateras strutside for struts. i'm hoping to find out if i can have the validator java script be activated on the field when i'm leaving it, to create or active apporeadch. btw in my search i've encounted a thread from 2001, saying struts is worthless and just creates overhead and bad performance issues, i wonder it's still true today. ok, narrowed it to the following: <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=windows-1255" %> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %> <html> <body> <h3><bean:message key="welcome.heading"/></h3> </body> </html> if i use this welcome.heading will be displayed as question marks. if i remove the charset from the page directive, the contnet will be displayed as gibbirsh, but setting explorer's encoding to hebrew(windows) will get it write. > ok, narrowed it to the following: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > displayed as gibbirsh, but setting explorer's encoding to > hebrew(windows) will get it write. That meants that the strings your emitting from Java are using the Hebrew(Windows) encoding. I strongly recommend you try to change it to either UTF-8 or UTF-16, but I can't offer you much advice on how to do that without seeing more info. Anyway, if what you've got works for you, then I suppose that's "good enough". - Oliver but i don't want it work this way, i want the browser to detect my encoding automatically. i tried to change to UTF-8, but the hebrew i got was gibbrish. > but i don't want it work this way, i want the browser to detect my > encoding automatically. > > i tried to change to UTF-8, but the hebrew i got was gibbrish. The line that says: <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=windows-1255" %> Is how your browser "automatically" detects the encoding. In other words, your browser is being TOLD what the encoding is, and it's being told incorrect information which is why it's receiving giberrish. My recommendation is that you change that tag to read: <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-16" %> and then, as an additional step, you have to make sure the data you're outputting actually IS in UTF-16 format. Once the two fields match up, your browser will be told to expect UTF-16 data, and it actually WILL receive UTF-16 data, and be able to display it. If you tell the browser to expect one kind of data, but then send another, then it's obviously going to be very confused. - Oliver here is what i did: <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %> <html> <head> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> test (written in hebrew) <h3><bean:message key="welcome.heading"/></h3> </body> </html> i first set my eclipse property editor encoding to utf-8,utf-16, and windows-1255 , i then set all tag pages as well (the page directive and the meta directive.).. on utf-8,utf-16, the word test came out as gibbrish, but in windows-1255 it came out ok, but in all cases the message from the properties came out as gibbrish, how do i change that? > here is what i did: > <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > windows-1255 it came out ok, but in all cases the message from the > properties came out as gibbrish, how do i change that? When you say "came out as gibbrish", where do you see this gibbrish? From within Eclipse? From the console? From the browser? - Oliver from the browser. > from the browser. And what encoding does the browser try to use when this happens? - Oliver well that's the confusing part, if i spacify in the page directive UTF-8, the browser really tries to have it in utf-8, i see the hebrew i hard coded encoded in jsp fine, but the from the property is gibbrish (and it also gibbrish in notepad if i look in 'view source') , i omit the page directive, the browser displays it as western (iso) which is gibbrish, but changing to UTF-8 in ie dispalys hebrew correctly. is there a way to read a property file directoy from jsp with out struts (a jstl tag maybe?) >well that's the confusing part, if i spacify in the page directive >UTF-8, the browser really tries to have it in utf-8, i see the hebrew i >hard coded encoded in jsp fine, but the from the property is gibbrish >(and it also gibbrish in notepad if i look in 'view source') , the key fact you likely missed is that all properties files must be encoded in ISO-8859-1, e.g. using \uxxxx for all interesting characters. You can create them with native2ascii. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html  SignatureCanadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Java custom programming, consulting and coaching. i also tried that, still no go... an alternative solution somone offered me is to build my own propertties retriveal class using struts's interface and specify it in struts config, but i don't know how to do that. >i also tried that, still no go... Are you saying the \uxxxx notation doesn't work? I.e. it doesn't display the hewbrew characters you are expecting? - Oliver exactly still gibbrish. > exactly still gibbrish. The \uxxxx notation should bypass any encoding problems on the Java side, meaning that the in-memory string representations should be correct. I recommend you use the \uxxxx notation and then tweak your HTML encoding declaration and browser until you find a pair where they are no longer gibberish and work from there. - Oliver well i think i'v managed to a combo with eclipse ant builds so it would convert it automatilcaly for every build i do. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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