Entering special language characters in JSF

Question

I am using JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 to develop a JSF/ADF application. My database is using the AL32UTF8 character set. If the following is entered into an af:inputText field....
Podmiotowi w 2 okresie leczenia proszę
... when the record is saved it changes ...
proszę to prosz + (what I guess is the unicode representation of the last character "&#281")
.... and this is what is being stored in the database. This would be ok, but when the record is displayed again in the browser, it is not resolving the unicode back to the correct character.
How do I allow the entry of these special characters and have them correctly displayed on the web page after saving ? I also have a similar problem with Hungarian and Polish.
Many thanks,
Brent Harlow

Answer 1

Hi Shay,
Thanks for that. I had set the compiler project properties and the locale of the browser but I was missing the encoding within the JSF page.
Once I changed
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
and
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"/>
to use "text/html;charset=UTF-8", it worked a treat.
Many thanks for the help !
Cheers,
Brent