JSP Unicode UTF-8 Problem

[pants]

Hi,

I have a JSP which reads and displays some chinese text from a PropertyResourceBundle. The JSP charset is set to UTF-8 (using the @page directive) and it all works fine.

However....if I type the chinese text directly into the JSP using a Unicode editor and save the file as UTF-8, when the JSP is hit is simply displays garbage... (i.e. "切涉料的��")

Any ideas what this might be?

[pants]

The problem seems to be that when Jasper compiles the .jsp files into .java files it doesn't convert the UTF-8 encoded strings into unicode escapes (i.e. of the form \u***).

Other JSP engines like Resin perform this conversion and the chinese text displays fine.

Is this a bug in the Jasper compiler or do I need to set a flag for Jasper to escape UTF-8?

[pants]

OK so it seems that jasper can't handle the page contentType being set in an include file. Once its set in the top level page everything works fine.

Thanks for all your help ;)