"Bad" markup for non-English language in JSF

Question

Hi,
the question emerged in "Problem ADF af:document i18n" thread, but, as I saw, it is more common, so I made this new thread. The question seems very simple, but by the moment I can't find an answer and it makes me doubt about the ability to use JSF...
The sequence of my actions.
1. My OS locale is russian (ru) (codepage windows-1251).
2. Create a new application in JDev.
3. Create an empty project in JDev.
4. Create a new jsf page. JDev suggests windows-1251 encoding, creates faces-config.xml and so on.
5. Place outputText JSF HTML component on the page. JDev creates the following markup: <h:outputText value="outputText1"/>.
6. Change value="outputText1" to "text_in_russian".
7. Run the page!
The result looks OK, text is displayed correctly, but, if you look at the source code, though codepage is windows-1251, all russian symbols are encoded like & # 1058;& # 1077;& # 1082;& # 1089;& # 1090; (i put spaces, as otherwise you'd see russian letters: &#1058;&#1077;&#1082;&#1089;&#1090;). As far as I understand, this means overrun of traffic and besides I don't like the idea that my pages are so "untidy" behind.
I specified default locale in faces-config.xml file, changed encoding and so on, but result was the same: everything looks fine, but entities instead of letters in html code.
By the way, if I specify russian text, where it is not rendered, it is seen normally. But, if it is a rendered text, no matter, how - by outputText, inputText component or, for example, af:document or af:panelPage - entities instead of letters in the source code.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks in advance, Valeriy

Answer 1

Hello, <br>
resulting page is windows-1251 encoded - that's OK.
If I write page using, say, just HTML (in Notepad) or JSP, every symbol would take exactly 1 byte - in windows-1251 encoding, all Russian letters, are, of course, encoded with 1 byte. I would use entities or escape-sequences only for special characters, like copyright. And this is the behaviour I expect from JSF - since I use windows-1251 encoding for my pages, it must use 1 byte for russian letters. Why use entities or escape-sequences if letters are normally preseted with 1 byte?<br>
For example, similarly, english letters are too can be written using & # xxxx, but, I think, everybody would be very surprised to look at the source code, resulting from JSF, and see that all english letters are written using & # xxxx. - again, why use entities and escape-sequences, if it is posible to make resulting HTML markup more understandable and consuming less space?<br>
JSTL tags, for example, c:out, use "right" markup - exactly 1 byte for russian letters. Can I get such behaviour with JSF?<br>
Imagine situation I described with english letters: you place, say, <h:outputText value="outputText1"/> in your code and expect to receive something like <span>outputText1</span>, but receive <span>& # xxxx; & # xxxx; & # xxxx;1</span>, while it is possible to use 1 byte for letter! Besides a "bad" look, this page will weight, say, 200K instead of 50K!<br>
And the question is russian language must not be special for windows-1251 encoding!<br>
I found such question at several forums, no decision found yet... And besides there can be JavaScript problems...<br>
Waiting for your response
Valeriy