How can I display Chinese Character correctly in JSP

Question

<p>Dear Expert,</p><p>Now I develop web application which using CR report, the development tool is IBM RAD(rational) and the database is DB2 UTF-8. Because need user to input something in JSP, so the programmer use "GB2312" to convert to insert into the database. But when I create the crystal report and view in the web, the Chinese character can&#39;t disply correctly, like "???????", even I formated the font in report, doesn&#39;t work too.</p><p>And I set the report JSP charset to "GB2312" or "UTF-8", both of them failed. Following is my JSP seting:</p><p><%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%%></p><p>or <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=GB2312" pageEncoding="GB2312"%%></p><p>And I think I must convert the data from database site firstly, then display, but I don&#39;t know where I can coding it and how to coding? Could any one tell me how to get it? </p><p>I use RAD(Rational) as development tools.</p><p>Thanks so much for your any comments. Many thanks!</p><p>Steven</p>

Answer 1

<p>Hi Steven,</p><p>         It sounds like you are on the right track to get the Chinese data to appear up correctly in the report. Can you tell me if you are using the JSF viewer or the JSP viewer?</p><p>From what the developers are telling me the following should work:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">For JSP viewers to set  content type correctly you can either use</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial"><%@ page  contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">Or</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8âu20AC)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">or  </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">simply call  viewer.setOwnPage(true); if it not necessary to blend with other  pages.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial">For JSF viewer the  third option is not available.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">What does your JSP page code look like? Also, what does the output look like?</p><p>Finally, one last thing is to ensure that the font you are using in the report is available to the engine at runtime. This will mean that it wll need to be installed on the application server where your JSP page is running. Give this a try and let me know what you find. </p><p>Regards,<br/>Sean Johnson (CR4E Product Manager) <br/><br/> Rate this plugin @ Eclipse Plugin Central          </p>