comboBox and encoding

[noedskov]

All,

I have this issue with the comboBox and encoding. It doesn't seem to allow "special characters" such as the German Umlaute or, in my case, the Danish equivilants (æ, ø and å).

I've searched the net but haven't been able to come up with a working solution (or one I could get to work). I've been looking at this discussion http://community.jboss.org/thread/14207 but without being able to make it work. I'm currently using MyFaces 1.2.4 and RichFaces 3.3.1 GA but have also tried upgrading to 1.2.8 and 3.3.2 SR1 without any luck.

My comboBox looks like this:

<rich:comboBox id="combo1" defaultLabel="#{msg.choose_subject}"

    buttonStyle="cmdBtnMailbox" inputClass="p" inputStyle="p"

    listHeight="800px" listStyle="p" listWidth="300px"

    value="#{WebpostkasseBean.nytEmne}"

    styleClass="p" required="true" requiredMessage="#{msg.required}">

    <f:selectItems id="selitm" value="#{WebpostkasseBean.postkasseEmner}" />

</rich:comboBox>

No matter where I use the Danish characters (defaultLabel, selectItems or selectItem) they show up as numerical HTML encoding of the Unicode character, just like Roland points out in the discussion I referenced earlier (e.g. my 'æ' shows up as '&#229;' - without the single quotes, of course).

I tried implementing a filter as suggested in the other discussion but also without any luck. Switching to Sun RI is not really an option.

I've tried setting the encoding to UTF-8 and also ISO-8859-1 (as page directive and in the filter) but, again, without any luck.

Just like Roland, I have no problem using Danish characters in any of the other components (e.g. toolTip, inputText etc.).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Søren Nødskov Hansen

[ilya_shaikovsky]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-2126

thats why the issues in our jira is closed as won't fix. Its myFaces related and this could be easilly checked by switching to SUN RI just for check.

[nbelaevski]

I'll move this to the user forum.  This forum is just for design and development of RichFaces project itself.

[noedskov]

Hi,

Switching to SUN RI is not very feasable when you aleady have a fully working website running in an organization with roughly 150.000 potential end-users ;-)

However, I found an error in our implementation of the CharsetFilter which caused Roland's (author of the other/older thread on this matter) suggested solution not to work. After fixing that bug, we now have Danish characters in our rich comboBox.

Thanks.

/Søren Nødskov Hansen

[ilya_shaikovsky]

I do not proposed you to switch implementations Just wanted to highlight that unfortunatelly we can't influence on that issue and that could be checked by switching.. Great to hear that workaround works for you fine finally!