UTF-8 form support not working Jboss portal?

[kevs3d]

To get the display of UTF-8 characters to work correctly, I added the following to all of our portlet JSP pages:

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

We found that JBoss Portal will display UTF-8 characters fine - BUT we have not found a why to submit them correctly in a FORM yet... I am looking for a solution for that now. I have tried adding acceptCharset="UTF-8" to all HTML FORM tags but that hasn't worked. And I have also tried changing the line in the theme index.jsp:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" />
to
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />

But that didn't work either :(

However I say a forum post reply by Julian:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=64828

I have tried making these changes as suggested by Julian:

org.jboss.portal.core.invocation.ContentTypeInterceptor
line 113

 // Set content type
 response.setContentType(mimeType);
 response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

So the pages are showing UTF-8 encoding in both IE and FireFox. This is fine and UTF-8 multi-byte characters are displaying ok.

This image shows that working:
http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/jboss_utf8.png

So now I attempt to enter UTF-8 characters in my FORM, the HTML FORM has the following attribute: acceptCharset="UTF-8" this image shows the input form:

http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/jboss_forminput.png

As you can see it's working fine allowing you to input the characters.

Now we submit the form. At this point if I check the value of the fields submitted to my bean in the debugger the values are a mess of characters and incorrect :( As can be seen on the next screen shot where we output the submitted characters back to the browser:

http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/jboss_formoutput.png

Exactly the same web-application, running out of the Jboss Portal (still inside JBoss - but running as a TomCat web-app) works fine and the characters are submitted correctly back to the web-server.

Does anyone have any idea what I need to do in JBoss Portal to fix this?

Thanks,

Kevin
--
http://www.alfresco.org

[martingi]

I am sending UTF-8 / German chars through a form and it works for me. However it was a longer way for me to get there:
http://www.jbossgroup.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=63925&view=previous

The solution for me was not to modify anything in the portal, but to change ... "the default encoding of my linux system to UTF-8. So if I am doing a
# echo $LANG
I get
DE_de.UTF-8 "

[fheldt]

You have to submit the form with the right charset

<form method='post' accept-charset="UTF-8" ...>

[kevs3d]

"fheldt" wrote:
You have to submit the form with the right charset

<form method='post' accept-charset="UTF-8" ...>

Yes I'm already doing that as I said in my previous message:
>So now I attempt to enter UTF-8 characters in my FORM, the HTML FORM has the following attribute: acceptCharset="UTF-8"...

The issue appears to in the portal, as the same webapp run plain in TomCat (and in Jboss) does not have these issues.

Kev
--
http://www.alfresco.org

[kevs3d]

So any other interested parties know, I have fixed the issue. I modified the file:

org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.AbstractMainServlet

and changed this method thus:

 protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException
 {
 log.info("Setting character encoding to UTF-8...");
 req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
 PortalServer container = getContainer();
 ServerManager manager = container.getManager();
 InvocationFactory ctx = manager.getInvocationContext();
 Invocation invocation = ctx.decode(req, resp);
 invoke(invocation);
 }

This fixed the issue and Form characters are now correctly handled as UTF-8 in the portal pages.

Thanks,

Kevin
--
http://www.alfresco.org

[julien1]

Kev, can you add a jira task in the 2.0.1 project to remind us to add your change ?