Peter,

It should not be a problem to populate your view from the DB. I think the DB and the driver should support the character set, but I really never had any issues with that, so I cannot tell.

For the static information in your page, you could use message bundles. If you use the default encoding, it should be possible to to write umlauts into the properties file. If you want to be on the safe side, use unicode escaped characters for the properties files.

If you save the xhtml file as UTF-8, and your editor knows how to write UTF-8, there should not be a problem to write any characters you like.

Could you provide the error messages you have encountered?

I would just wrap

#{holidayHome.instance.description}

in an h:outputText

I forget to say that i use this stuff in a german adresstable application. I have not done any special, besides the outputText, to get it working.
Ciao,
Carsten

I have a multi-language web-application using Seam and I have no problems. But you need to ensure your application and database handles UTF-8 correctly.

In the components.xml file, add:

<web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-8" override-client="true" url-pattern="*.xhtml"/>

What database are you using?

PostgreSQL have problems with sorting if you want to use multiple languages. But if you are using PostgreSQL you need to initialize the database to use UTF-8:

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -E UTF8 -D /usr/local/pgsql/data --locale=da_DK

MySQL supports multiple languages and I will recommend MySQL if you need to support multiple languages.

For UTF-8 and multi-language support add following lines to the my.cnf file:

#Set the default character set.
default-character-set=utf8
#Set the default collation.
default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci

And remember to use COLLATE when you e.g. wants to sort:

COLLATE

BTW: HQL and EJB-QL don't support the keyword 'COLLATE' !

Quote, Kariem Hussein:

If you save the xhtml file as UTF-8, and your editor knows how to write UTF-8, there should not be a problem to write any characters you like.

Correctly. I'm using IntelliJ IDEA and all my files are saved in UTF-8.

Kenneth Christensen wrote on Feb 22, 2008 08:11 AM:


I have a multi-language web-application using Seam and I have no problems. But you need to ensure your application and database handles UTF-8 correctly.

Does your web filter config also enable you to use command links and EL to method names with special characters? I recall trying but having problems with the URL encodings etc? Could also have been an AS config thing, didn't spend so much time on that.

Nicklas Karlsson wrote on Feb 22, 2008 08:57 AM:

Kenneth Christensen wrote on Feb 22, 2008 08:11 AM:


I have a multi-language web-application using Seam and I have no problems. But you need to ensure your application and database handles UTF-8 correctly.

Does your web filter config also enable you to use command links and EL to method names with special characters? I recall trying but having problems with the URL encodings etc? Could also have been an AS config thing, didn't spend so much time on that.

I can't help you because I'm only using english characters in my code :-)

So, where do I have to put the character-encoding-filter to get it to work, are the parameters correct??

In the components.xml !

Remember to declare the web xml ns in the components:

<components xmlns:web="http://jboss.com/products/seam/web"
                               http://jboss.com/products/seam/web http://jboss.com/products/seam/web-2.0.xsd">

Please read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/internationalization-localization.html

To see the values of the character set and collation system variables that apply to your connection, use these statements:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%';

Here is a dump from my MySQL:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%:

character_set_client             utf8
character_set_connection     utf8
character_set_database             utf8
character_set_filesystem     binary
character_set_results     
character_set_server             utf8
character_set_system             utf8
character_sets_dir             /usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686/share/mysql/charsets/

and

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%':

collation_connection     utf8_general_ci
collation_database     utf8_unicode_ci
collation_server     utf8_unicode_ci

As mentioned earlier I have no problems with the setup (Seam and DB) I explained in some of my previous comment.

HI,

I know this is a old post. But for other in future.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I don't know why this encoding works and utf-8 not, but with many troubles I found this for my solution.

Hi, look at this: JBoss Seam UTF-8 encoding