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user2531191
user2531191

Reputation: 579

Non English UTF 8 characters changes when posted from HTML Form

When I post non english characters from my HTML Form, on server side I recieve some UTF-8 character, but not the original UTF-8 character. For example, in Kannada 'ಇಲಾಖೆಯ' becomes 'ಇಲಾಖೆಯ', or in french, 'département' becomes 'département'.
My HTML Form has attribute accept-charset as UTF-8, I have meta content type to text/html; charset=UTF-8. My JBoss server is also configured for UTF-8.

I have compiled source code as UTF-8 in Maven.
I have added CharactersetEncoderFilter in web.xml as -

<filter>
    <filter-name>encoding-filter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>
        org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
    </filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>encoding</param-name>
        <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>encoding-filter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Is there anyway to get back the original text that was posted from the HTML Form ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 507

Answers (1)

Neil McGuigan
Neil McGuigan

Reputation: 48236

Make sure your JSPs have pageEncoding=UTF-8. In web.xml:

<jsp-config>
    <jsp-property-group>
        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
        <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
    </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>

Is your browser Internet Exploder?

Is the input actually UTF-8 or is it copy-pasted from MS Word?

Upvotes: 1

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