3:02 p.m.
Hi together. Hope someone can help me out, I feel a bit confused ;)
I am developing a JSF webapp using facelets and Richfaces, deploying it on a JBoss 4
AppServer and I am using MySQL database.
So far so good. Everything works fine except some bugs with switching to UTF-8. I am
getting misinterpreted signs instead of äöü (german ae, oe, ue. and what you see
right here, are the misinterpreted signs even in this forum. seems phpbb isnt utf-8, too
^^). So the first thing was googling. And I googled... and tried...and googled. What I
found out so far is, that there are so many different ways to tell the webapp to use
UTF-8, its really curious. And.... not a single one works for me :(
1st possibility:
There is a tag inside every .xhtml page, which can be extended through lang="de"
(or maybe lang="de_DE"?):
<HTML lang="de">
My question here: Why should I? How does it affect a webapp (in fact in my case it
doesnt)
2nd possibility:
Inside the header of every .xhtml page there should be a first entry like this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"/>
This already seems to sound right. And trying Firefox -> View -> Page Encoding shows
me UTF-8 as marked for my .xhtml files. So far so good.
3rd possibility:
I am using windows, which doesnt use UTF-8 as default. Inside Eclipse I found out that you
have to pay attention while saving files (properties, .xhtml...). Right Mouse ->
Properties shows you wether you saved your files in UTF-8 or still in system default.
After switching all my JSF project files to UTF-8 (I didnt switch all my EJB3 project
files to UTF-8) I had to redo some text and change to german ae, oe, ue
4th possibility:
This leads us away from the .xhtml files and lets us change our web.xml by adding
| <filter>
| <filter-name>UTF8 Filter</filter-name>
| <filter-class>myJSFproject.filter.UTF8Filter</filter-class>
| </filter>
| <filter-mapping>
| <filter-name>UTF8 Filter</filter-name>
| <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
| </filter-mapping>
|
and developing a small java class like following:
| package myJSFwebapp.filter;
|
| import java.io.IOException;
|
| import javax.servlet.Filter;
| import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
| import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
| import javax.servlet.ServletException;
| import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
| import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
|
| public class UTF8Filter implements Filter {
|
| public void destroy() {}
|
| /**
| * @param ServletRequest
| * @param ServletResponse
| * @param FilterChain
| */
| public void doFilter( ServletRequest request,
| ServletResponse response,
| FilterChain chain ) throws IOException,
| ServletException {
| request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
| response.setContentType("application/xhtml+xml");
| chain.doFilter(request, response);
| }
|
| public void init(FilterConfig arg0) throws ServletException {}
|
| }
|
This one should help changing the request and response to UTF-8... but it actually doesnt.
Or thats not enough.
5th possibility:
The database tables must use UTF-8 too. So be sure to have your database schema and tables
configured right.
Unfortunately I did. But my problem isnt text from the database (which seems to get me
correct german signs!). My problem is reading text from a .properties file which gets
shown wrong. So I went on googling...
6th possibility:
The forms can be changed to submit UTF-8 too. Whyever because the request / response
should already be changed to UTF-8 through position 4, see above. It would work like:
<form method='post' accept-charset="UTF-8" ...>
And if you dont want every single form to change you can even try this by extendig web.xml
once again:
| <!-- http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/HTTPCharset/ -->
| <!-- Now all forms take only UTF-8 -->
| <context-param>
| <param-name>PARAMETER_ENCODING</param-name>
| <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
| </context-param>
|
Sounds great, but is it really neccesary? And it doesnt help me out because my text is
coming from a properties file, not from a submitted inputed text.
7th possibility:
You can even change your f:view tag like following:
<!--How do I change the response contentType?-->
| <f:view contentType="application/xhtml+xml"> ... </f:view>
It just ...wont help anyways.
and the last and in my opinion really cruelest way would be...
8th possibility:
Set JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8
-Djavax.servlet.response.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" in start script
(run.sh....) from JBOSS.
To be honest... I didnt even try this one. Cant be right, can it??
By the way, you can even change the console output for JBOSS to UTF-8 in Eclipse server
view, but that doesnt matter.
So finally I googled, I tried... and found NO way of using UTF-8 :( I really need help
with this one and hope, anyone knows a bit more about this and can help me out! Would be
great! Thanks in advance! Let me her what you tried and what you know about the above
solutions.
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