3 Replies Latest reply on Feb 12, 2009 7:20 AM by nbelaevski

    Encoding problem with RichFaces

    simafe_2000

      Hello.

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      Note: The romanian characters are not correctly displayed on this forum.
      Please see the same post on www.javaranch.com:
      http://www.coderanch.com/t/430758/JSF/java/Encoding-with-RichFaces
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      I am developing a web application using JBoss 5.0.0.GA + RichFaces 3.2.2.GA and I want to use romanian characters on my pages.
      The problem is that on my pages these characters are not displayed correctly. More precisely, if I put these characters directly on my page
      they are displayed correctly, but if I use

      ...
      <h:outputText value="#{customMessages.judet}"/>
      ...

      then they are not correctly displayed.

      I have tried to instruct RichFaces to use UTF-8 encoding, but seems like I am missing something.

      My JSP:
      <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      
      <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
      <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
      <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
      
      <f:view>
      
      <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
      ...
      <h:outputText value="#{customMessages.judet}"/>
      ...


      I have specified the below filter on my web.xml to be used instead of the default one
      ...
      import org.ajax4jsf.Filter;
      
      public class UTF8Filter extends Filter {
      
       private final String ENCODING = "UTF-8";
      
       public void doFilter(final ServletRequest request, final ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
       request.setCharacterEncoding(ENCODING);
       response.setCharacterEncoding(ENCODING);
      
       super.doFilter(request, response, chain);
       }
      }

      web.xml
      ...
      <filter>
       <display-name>UTF-8 RichFaces Filter</display-name>
       <filter-name>utf8richfaces</filter-name>
       <filter-class>com.javawebwizard.common.view.jsf.UTF8Filter</filter-class>
       </filter>
       <filter-mapping>
       <filter-name>utf8richfaces</filter-name>
       <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
       <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
       <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
       <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
       </filter-mapping>
      ...

      On the run.bat script that launches JBoss application server I added
      -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

      I don't know if it is important, but my page (the welcome page of my application) is display after a redirect, like this:

      <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
      <jsp:forward page="/welcome.faces"/>


      Am I missing something? Or is there any error on my code above?
      Any help would be highly appreciated.
      Thanks.

      Best regards,
      Felix
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