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kafrlust
kafrlust

Reputation: 309

Spring 2.5 form/jsp encoding problem

I'm facing a really annoying problem:I created a form with spring's form-tags and when I insert text with non-latin characters I get a sequence of questionmarks.I've used the CharacterEncodingFilter in my web.xml but I'm still facing the same problem,I've set characterEncoding in UTF-8 at the formBackingObject method of my controller,I've set page encoding charset and enctype to UTF-8 with no result.I know there are similar posts here and I've tried the suggested solutions but nothing changed!Any suggestions? thank you in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 700

Answers (1)

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1109570

A sequence of question marks is typical when either the DB encoding or the HTTP response encoding cannot accept the obtained bytes for the encoding it was instructed to use.

Since you've set the page encoding to UTF-8, the HTTP response encoding part is fine (assuming that all you did was putting <%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> in top of JSP).

So, the DB encoding is suspect. You need to ensure that the DB is been instructed to use the proper encoding to store the characters. You're supposed to do this in CREATE DATABASE and CREATE TABLE statements. With some JDBC drivers you also need to pass an extra argument in JDBC connection string to specify the encoding the bytes are transferred in. The details depends on the DB and JDBC driver used, so it's up to you to consult the appropriate manuals. If you stucks, update your question to include the DB make/version used.

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Upvotes: 4

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