Webapp does not support foreign characters

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zakasbanda@gmail.com - 26 Mar 2008 20:29 GMT

Hi All

I need your help.

My web application does not support foreign language characters right
now. If I type in some chinease charanters in TITLE and save, it comes
back with garbage. While my database is UTF-8, the rest of the
application is not. Its a typical "JST, Servlet, JSTL, Java" app.
Could you guys please can help me what all things I will need to
change in order to accomplish this? The application just needs to
accept foreign characters and display them back correct.

Will appreciate your help.
-Sandeep

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Roedy Green - 26 Mar 2008 20:43 GMT

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT), "zakasbanda@gmail.com"
<zakasbanda@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>My web application does not support foreign language characters right
>now. If I type in some chinease charanters in TITLE and save, it comes
>back with garbage. While my database is UTF-8, the rest of the
>application is not. Its a typical "JST, Servlet, JSTL, Java" app.

Do a view source.

you should see

<html>
<head>
...
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">

make sure the charset is one that will support the chars you need, and
that they are correctly encoded. You can use my applet called the
encoding recogniser to check.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html

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Hugo - 27 Mar 2008 05:32 GMT

On Mar 26, 12:29 pm, "zakasba...@gmail.com" <zakasba...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All
>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Will appreciate your help.
> -Sandeep

Are you using any frameworks like Struts? The charset is also defined
in the struts JAR.

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