Display of German characters

[martingi]

Hello, I have a problem to display German umlauts in a portlet running on JBP Beta 1 (sources from the zip-file), JBoss 4.01sp1 and Fedora Core 2.

I tried to fix it by setting the JBossRenderResponse ContentType to UTF-8 and after that to ISO-8859-1 - with little success.

I could imagine that I need to edit some descriptor, but I really have no idea which one. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Martin

[mholzner]

what exactly are you doing, and what is the problem? A bit moer detail would be helpful....

[martingi]

The problem was to display german characters in the rendered html output of a portlet. But it seems to be ok, after I set the encoding in the portlet jsp explicitly to

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

Furthermore I set the $LANG in fedora with similar values, and it works if my dev environment has a good day - which is not always the case unfortunately. But it seems always to be working on the redhat server, so no problem.

Martin

[chuka]

Hi martingi!
how did you changed JBossRenderResponse ContentType to UTF-8?
I've changed all my jsp's page directive so that they have
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> , but i couldn't display any mongolian character, all the character were broken. when i checked the page info of FireFox browser then the Encoding was ISO-8859-1.I thinks it seems that no matter you change your jsp's enconding or character set , the result remains same because all the jsp pages are parsed by a servlet or something which has a default encoding ISO-8859-1.
So now I've no clue how to build multilingual portal site.
is there any body with some solution on the utf problem?

[martingi]

What I did besides setting the encoding in the JSP was changing the default encoding of my linux system to UTF-8. So if I am doing a
# echo $LANG
I get
DE_de.UTF-8

Maybe it would help if you did a similar change. Actually my guess is that my problem was not related to JBP, but more generally to JBoss because I experienced the same problem with characters in servlets on JBoss. But the strange thing is that I never had a problem with the same servlets deployed in tomcat standalone.

If you're serving your content from a database another thing you could do is to check if the character problem is not on that side.

Martin

[mholzner]

the portal does not set the encoding of the response, so it is up to the app server to handle that. I beliefe that it uses the underlying system encoding (which would match your observations).
You can change the encoding however.
You could modify the content type interceptor (or better: plug in your own after this one) , and set the response's encoding there.

disclaimer: I haven't tried this, but it should work. Not sure however if all pieces work nicely with encodings.....

[chuka]

Hi mholzner! i've tried the content type interceptor ,but it fails.
when i changed the MIME_GENERAL_HTML = "text/html" --> text/html;charset=utf-8, and built the source again then
it gives error that "content type not accepted!" ,
so i think it's related to setContentType method of RenderResponseImpl.java :

public void setContentType(String contentType)
{
int index = contentType.indexOf(';');
if (index != -1)
{
contentType = contentType.substring(0, index);
}
String responseContentType = resp.getContentType();
if (!responseContentType.equals(contentType))
{
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Content type not accepted");
}
result.setContentType(contentType);
}

it extracts only "text/hmtl" from content type (which is "text/html;charset=utf-8") and in turn it check against isAcceptedContentType method of ContentTypeInterceptor.java
public static final boolean isAcceptedContentType(String contentType)
{
return MIME_GENERAL_HTML.equalsIgnoreCase(contentType) | MIME_WML.equalsIgnoreCase(contentType);
}
so eventually it doesn't match of course,....

you mentioned creating my own plugin, but i've no idea how to create that, i just want to allow jboss portal to support asian language which require utf-8 encoding (actually mongolian language) .
if there are developers who supported asian language , please let me khow how to.

[martingi]

Is it possible for you to render your character set from a servlet on the same JBoss AS you're using for your portlet? I am asking because I reckon that your problem is not directly related to jboss portal. If you posted your question to a more general forum about JBoss AS and servlets you could find a much bigger community for your problem - just an idea.

Martin