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The following page has been changed by ChristopherSchultz: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8 The comment on the change is: Stopped clobbering client-provided character encoding; added notes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. For translation of inputs coming back from the browser there must be a - method that translates from the browser's ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. It seems to + method that translates from the browser's ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. ISO-8859-1 + is the default character encoding for servers and browsers according to the + [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt HTTP specification] section 3.4.1. - me that -1 is used in all regions as I have had people in countries such as - Greece & Bulgaria test this and they always send input back in -1 encoding. - The method which you will use constantly should go something like this: {{{ /** - * Convert ISO8859-1 format string (which is the default sent by IE + * Convert ISO-8859-1 format string (which is the default sent by IE * to the UTF-8 format that the database is in. */ public String toUTF8(String isoString) @@ -41, +40 @@ } catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e) { + // TODO: This should never happen. The UnsupportedEncodingException + // should be propagated instead of swallowed. This error would indicate + // a severe misconfiguration of the JVM. + // As we can't translate just send back the best guess. System.out.println("UnsupportedEncodingException is: " + e.getMessage()); @@ -89, +92 @@ public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain next) throws IOException, ServletException { + // Respect the client-specified character encoding + // (see HTTP specification section 3.4.1) + if(null == request.getCharacterEncoding()) - request.setCharacterEncoding(encoding); + request.setCharacterEncoding(encoding); + next.doFilter(request, response); } @@ -119, +126 @@ The suggested solution originates from [http://people.comita.spb.ru/users/sergeya/java/ruschars.html Sergey Astakhov (all texts are in russian)] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) + '''Important note''': Note that this filter should be as far towards the front of your filter chain as possible. If some other code calls request.getParameter (or a similar method) before this filter is invoked, then the encoding will not be set properly, and your parameters will still be decoded improperly. + '''- TIP -''' Update the file $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml for UTF-8 support by connectors. @@ -131, +140 @@ disableUploadTimeout="true" '''URIEncoding="UTF-8'''"/> + Note that this changes the behavior of reading GET parameters from the request URI and will not affect POST parameters at all. + --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
