Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:54:36 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr> To: Sergei Komarov <sk@pressevent.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK142_p6 - non-ascii encoding problem? Message-ID: <40ADA7AC.20407@noc.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <009301c43eae$296f7b20$1401a8c0@na.corp.yr.com> References: <009301c43eae$296f7b20$1401a8c0@na.corp.yr.com>
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Sergei Komarov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, jdk1.4.2_p6 and Tomcat 4.1.30 or 5.0.24
> and keep having a problem with non-Latin1 characters output by JSPs.
> This problem seems to be specific to FreeBSD as it doesn't occur on
> Windows (I'm testing Solaris as well).
>
> A JSP receives a request attribute containing a string of non-Latin1
> characters (Cyrillic Windows, Simplified Chinese gb2312, etc.)
>
> When the string is output within a page via c:out, struts bean:write or
> <%=name%>, JspWriter converts all non-Latin1 chars to '?'.
>
> I can correct it with either of the following tricks, but the
> application is too big to replicate them in all JSPs:
> <%@page language="java"
> contentType="text/html;charset=gb2312"
> import= "java.nio.charset.*,
> java.nio.CharBuffer,
> java.nio.ByteBuffer"
> %>
> <%
> String orig = (String) request.getAttribute("original");
> String encoded = new String(orig.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),"gb2312");
> %>
> ...
> <%= encoded %>
> ...
> <%
> Charset gb2312 = Charset.forName("gb2312");
> Charset iso = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
> CharBuffer cb = CharBuffer.wrap(orig);
> ByteBuffer bb = iso.encode(cb);
> %>
> ...
> <%= gb2312.decode(bb) %>
>
> Am I missing something in the configuration of FreeBSD and JDK?
>
> I tried setting
> LANGUAGE zh_CN
> LANG zh_CN.gb2312
> LC_TYPE zh_CN
> LC_ALL zh_CN
> MM_CHARSET gb2312
>
> In /etc/profile etc., but to no avail. Perhaps someone knows the
> solution to this?
You could try adding the following to the default class in /etc/login.conf:
:charset=zh_CN.GB2312:\
:lang=zh_CN.GB2312:\
and then doing "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf".
You could also have just mis-spelled the locale.
Cheers,
--
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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