Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-13 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "André Warnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem Johnny Kewl wrote: If you do decide to

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-13 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem so, Java is still 16-bit Unicode in its char primitive, but you can use ints to hold UTF-16 values using 21-bits? The 21-bit values are

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-13 Thread André Warnier
Johnny Kewl wrote: If you do decide to look at this link... http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp#core-locale The above link seems to be extremely informative, right on the spot for this thread. Thanks. Among other things, it points out that changing the "default l

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > so, Java is still 16-bit Unicode in its char primitive, > but you can use ints to hold UTF-16 values using 21-bits? The 21-bit values are re

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: André Warnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > The servlet thus reads the iso-8859-1 data, but with the > wrong decoder. I guess then that this decoder replaces > anything that does not

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "André Warnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:56 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem Just for the sake of completeness : Christopher

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Just for the sake of completeness : Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, André Warnier wrote: It is on the way through that servlet that they get "corrupted", unless I start Tomcat with LC_CTYPE="iso-8859-1". What do the HTTP headers say when the f

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willem, Willem Moors wrote: I can only see one solution to this complexity: let's all (everybody in the whole world) speak the same language, use the same currency and move into one and the same timezone (the latter becau

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
ubject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem (My understanding is that Unicode (16-bit) is actually not big enough for everything, but hey, they tried). Point of clarification: Unicode is NOT limited to 16 bits (not even in Java, these days). There are defined code p

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem (My understanding is that Unicode (16-bit) is actually not big enough for everything, but hey, they tried). Point of clarification

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willem, Willem Moors wrote: > I can only see one solution to this complexity: let's all (everybody in the > whole world) speak the same language, use the same currency and move into > one and the same timezone (the latter because of past fun with time

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts >> problem >> >> the 'char' data type i

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Willem Moors
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wonder if Wil knew he asked such a damn big question... ha ha > I'm really amazed at the volume of mails my question has raised. I can only see one solution to this complexity: let's all (everybody in the whole world) speak

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnny, Johnny Kewl wrote: > Servlet Response does in fact have a setLocale(Locale loc) function... > Which seems to indicate that if headers or something like > response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8"); > is *not* used... TC will take on th

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Kewl
Nope - most editors do not let you choose the character encoding, they just use the platform default. Some do let you choose a UTF-x flavor in lieu of the platform default, which is quite desirable. Some fonts (e.g., Wingdings) redefine the glyphs for given code points in order to display o

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: [...] Yes, they do. MS, contrary to W3 specifications, sniffs the content of a page and chooses the encoding and ignores any server-specified encoding. It also does this with MIME types. (Sorry, can't find the reference right now). [...] Here is a start, sympathetic

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > the 'char' data type is /defined/ to be 16-bits wide > (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.2.

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnny, Johnny Kewl wrote: > Use this function > > System.out.print("CharSet : " + Charset.defaultCharset().toString()); > > and thats what you HAVE TO set your page at > > On my system it tells me its. windows-1252 I think you're stil

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts >> problem >> >> (My understanding is that Unicod

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > Does it mean you cant run linux headless?... Of course you can (think about blade servers). Now you're confusing graphical display with encoding.

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, André Warnier wrote: > It is on the way through that servlet that they get "corrupted", unless > I start Tomcat with LC_CTYPE="iso-8859-1". What do the HTTP headers say when the file is served correctly versus when it is not? I suspect that th

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, André Warnier wrote: > The pages served by that webapp are the same html pages, all of them > having a declaration . Note that using META tags to set character sets is a bit dangerous. You're telling the client to ignore the character set indi

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > (My understanding is that Unicode (16-bit) is actually not > big enough for everything, but hey, they tried). Point of clarification: Unicode

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: >> Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem >> >> if I do look at that test page in a MS tool... it displays

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnny, Johnny Kewl wrote: > If this locale stuff is in fact defaulting to an ISO char set that can > do these symbols... and say you where making a non english page, say > Japanese... do you think that its possible to use it? It is up to your browse

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > If this locale stuff is in fact defaulting to an ISO char set > that can do these symbols... There's the basic problem - anytime you allow def

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Caldarale, Charles R > Subject: RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > Consequently, setting LC_CTYPE (or equivalent) prior to > starting up Tomcat can have a dramatic effect on the > interpretation of both input and output, as you h

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: André Warnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > - the servlet reads those documents with some InputStream, > without specifying a character set or encoding, and by > default that means to use

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Antonio Vidal Ferrer
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2008 16:58 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > 2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >> >

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Konstantin Kolinko wrote: 2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Konstantin Kolinko wrote: 2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'm not sure these days what the "normal web character set" really is. If you're referring to ASCII (aka Basic Latin),

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "André Warnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'm not sure

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > >> 2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>> I'm not sure these days what the "normal web character set" really is. If you're referring to ASCII (aka Basic Latin), th

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Konstantin Kolinko wrote: 2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'm not sure these days what the "normal web character set" really is. If you're referring to ASCII (aka Basic Latin), then no, the Pound Sterling symbol is not present. However, for any of the

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Kewl
Then one last thing before I put this in my little black book of things I'm never going to do... and forget about it forever ;) This is what windows does If the machine is on US English... Regardless of the local I set... German, English, Japanese I set in Java the charset is always

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Kewl
OK, Wil you made me do some homework... got it sorted for you You must not guess the Charset... as we been doing. Use this function System.out.print("CharSet : " + Charset.defaultCharset().toString()); and thats what you HAVE TO set your page at On my system it tells me its...

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2008/9/12 André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> >> I'm not sure these days what the "normal web character set" really is. If >> you're referring to ASCII (aka Basic Latin), then no, the Pound Sterling >> symbol is not present. However, for any of the ISO-8859-x varia

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Caldarale, Charles R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:01 AM Subject: RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-12 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: I'm not sure these days what the "normal web character set" really is. If you're referring to ASCII (aka Basic Latin), then no, the Pound Sterling symbol is not present. However, for any of the ISO-8859-x variants, it is present, using the 163 (0xA3) value you no

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > I'm willing to bet the symbol for the british pound is not part of the > normal web character set like a US dollar symbol is and as a result >

RE: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Johnny Kewl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency > amounts problem > > http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/test/test.htm > What do you see in this test page? Depends on which character encoding I choose to view the page in. For

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
http://validator.w3.org Very cool btw... didnt know it was there --- HARBOR : http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/index.htm The most powerful application server on earth. The only real POJO Application Server. See it in Action : http

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If the page contains an invalid code-point, as the error message >> points out, then what should a browser display?? > > Thats probably what I'm not getting... > All I did was set the Font to Verdana and drop a registered m

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Hassan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:59 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Johnny Kewl

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Johnny Kewl wrote: http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/test/test.htm What do you see in this test page? The output of a server that lies right to my face. It says, it is serving UTF-8-encoded text, while it really serves text encoded with some 8-bit charset - probably ISO-8859-1. Regards mks ---

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hassan I not arguing, you know nothing about that font... how is your client > going to display it? If the page contains an invalid code-point, as the error message points out, then what should a browser display?? -- Hass

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Johnny Kewl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:41 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem - Original Message - From: "Hass

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.kewlstuff.co.za/test/test.htm > > What do you see in this test page? problems :-)

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Hassan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Johnny Kewl

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now you designing a web page... you pick Arial... > have to discover the font (some how) and then you have to add that HTML to > CSS code to your page Do you not understand that style information, including fonts, is

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Hassan Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:58 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Johnny Kewl

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread David Smith
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnny, Johnny Kewl wrote: I think it may be possible that som

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its generating a pound... the question is, the webapp is not dicatation the > font... so I'm asking what font is being used for the pound? Whatever the browser picks from what it has available. :-) > He *is* introducing a

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willem, Willem Moors wrote: > I studied the Response Headers for the ajax call that generates the output > and found that for the correct result (ie. in TC55), the content type was > this: > Content-Typetext/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1 > > while for

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnny, Johnny Kewl wrote: > I think it may be possible that something else is setting the font... > and then the JRE is using that. I think you're totally confusing yourself about font issues. Java only interacts with fonts of any kind when running

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Johnny Kewl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:18 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem - Original Message - From: "Willem

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Willem Moors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem I studied the Response Headers for the ajax call

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2008/9/11 Willem Moors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I studied the Response Headers for the ajax call that generates the output > and found that for the correct result (ie. in TC55), the content type was > this: > Content-Typetext/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1 > > while for the wrong result (ie. in TC6), t

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
I studied the Response Headers for the ajax call that generates the output and found that for the correct result (ie. in TC55), the content type was this: Content-Typetext/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1 while for the wrong result (ie. in TC6), the content type was: Content-Typetext/plain So I

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Johnny Kewl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem - Original Message - From: "

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Willem Moors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think... you looking in the wrong place... Convert it to bytes... and print that... you will see it... I think Can it be one of the libraries (*.jar) that is different, that forcec TC6 to act differently ? ---

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Jeff
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Willem Moors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm transferring my application from a tomcat 5.5.26 server to tomcat > 6.0.18, and notice that my formatted currency amounts are not being properly > displayed. Instead of a Pound (GBP) sign I get a question mark within a

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Johnny Kewl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will, I cant see how TC can be influencing it > You write a char (the pound) to an output stream it appears differently in > browser... > TC is just sendign what it gets... > Its got to be this... > NumberFormat.getCur

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Willem Moors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:36 PM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Mark Hagger

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Mark Hagger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > You are almost certainly having a problem with (default) character > encodings on your system, usual things to check are the encoding that > the JVM is using, for example what does: > > echo $LANG > > return (usually control

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
> > 1. What the _Browser_ thinks about encoding of your page. > > In menu View > Encoding > what encoding is auto-selected there. Western / ISO 8859-1 for both. > 2. In Page Info dialog of Firefox > (in Tools menu or in context menu > Page Info ) > > what is Encoding, Content Type, and what MET

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Willem Moors
> > Will if possible use > £ > instead... that I think its font independent... > > Otherwise I think you have to sorround that > getCurrencyInstance > stuff with a font... and tell it what font it must use... > > ... I think > > I'm just wondering how the systems guess the character set from > getC

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Mark Hagger
You are almost certainly having a problem with (default) character encodings on your system, usual things to check are the encoding that the JVM is using, for example what does: echo $LANG return (usually controlled by what's defined in /etc/sysconfig/i18n - although I'm not familiar with Ubuntu

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2008/9/11 Willem Moors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Steve Ochani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hmm odd. >> >> I tried it on my Redhat test server and worked fine also. >> >> Is your tomcat 6 install a default/fresh install? >> >> What browser are you using? What charact

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-11 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Willem Moors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:15 AM Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Steve Ochani

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Willem Moors
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Steve Ochani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm odd. > > I tried it on my Redhat test server and worked fine also. > > Is your tomcat 6 install a default/fresh install? > > What browser are you using? What character encoding does it think the > HelloWorldExample > ou

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Ochani
Send reply to: Tomcat Users List Date sent: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:58:48 +0200 From: Willem Moors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem > > > > Works fine for me, fresh install

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Willem Moors
> > Works fine for me, fresh install of 6.0.18, changed the > HelloWorldExample.java and > recompiled. > > Tried with both IE7 and FF 3. > > > Are you sure you don't have a httpd in front of tomcat? > > I've seen simillar problem when using apache httpd. > I had to turn off the option > > AddDefaul

Re: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Ochani
Send reply to: Tomcat Users List Date sent: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:27:51 +0200 From: Willem Moors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem > I'm transferring my application from a tomcat

Migrating to tomcat 6 gives formatted currency amounts problem

2008-09-10 Thread Willem Moors
I'm transferring my application from a tomcat 5.5.26 server to tomcat 6.0.18, and notice that my formatted currency amounts are not being properly displayed. Instead of a Pound (GBP) sign I get a question mark within a black diamond (the app works fine in 5.5.26). This can easily be emulated. Add