I am looking for help to get all my layers on the stack before UTF-8 encoding.
I found this nice article:
http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=206
describing 3 places, I need to worry about coding. Since my (1) Oracle database is currently installed in UTF-8, this leaves the server (2) and 3) the server to worry about them.
I also found this detailed article.
http://balusc.blogspot.com/2009/05/unicode-how-to-get-characters-right.html#JSPServletRequest
which I am trying to follow below, but with some newbies implementation questions.
To access the browser, I included the following at the top of each JSP page:
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
(For reference see here ).
To access the server, I had to include the following line in the Java servlet and JSP pages before issuing the request.getParameter() or request.getAttribute() statement:
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
Since I use GlassFish 3.1.2, I understand that it does not use UTF-8 by default, so I need to somehow install it manually.
I have seen many websites talking about a file called glassfish-web.xml . Is this piece of regular glass fish installed? I don’t know where to find him. I used the web.xml in my WEB-INF folder for my web application. Can someone help me figure out if I need to modify this web.xml , or do I need to find or create a new file called glassfish-web.xml to set up the encoding for glass fish?
My web.xml starts with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> ...
For a JSP / servlet request, I include the following line in the web.xml
<parameter-encoding default-charset="UTF-8"/>
Is it possible to insert the web.xml in this order? Or, do I need to go into some glassfish-web.xml ?
For the JSP / servlet response, I put the following in my web.xml (see accepted answer here ):
<jsp-config> <jsp-property-group> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding> </jsp-property-group> </jsp-config>
I assume that these lines are simply inserted between <web-app> and </web-app> . But, let me know if they should instead enter a different descriptor (for example, <glassfish-web-app> and </glassfish-web-app> )?
I also added the following to the JSP <head> section:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Useful links:
How to get rid of WARNING: PWC4011: Unable to set request character encoding in UTF-8
stack overflow
https://wikis.oracle.com/display/GlassFish/FaqHttpRequestParameterEncoding