Servlet encoding problem

Question

Hi,
I have a servlet which need to send xml(Which can have any unicode characters) as response.
Below are my trails.
*1>>>*
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
response.setContentType("text/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1");
out.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>");
out.write("<xml>ÀàÁáÂâÃãÄäÅÅ</xml>");
This works perfect.I mean the browser is showing all the characters properly.
*2>>>*
The same code when setting is utf-8 as below the browser is giving below error.
Code :
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
response.setContentType("text/xml;charset=UTF-8");
out.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
out.write("<xml>ÀàÁáÂâÃãÄäÅÅ</xml>");
Error on browser :
An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://myurl...
When is saw the view source.. all the characters looks pretty good. but the browser is giving the above error
*3>>>*
code:
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
response.setContentType("text/xml;charset=ISO-8859-1");
out.write("<xml>ÀàÁáÂâÃãÄäÅÅ</xml>");
This code is with out the xml specification.This output is displayed as plain text instead as xml.
Is there some thing else i am missing, i want to use utf-8 encoding inorder to support all languages.But i am restricted to iso-8859-1 where i can display only latin lanaguages .
I am using oracle application server.
Any help would be great....
Thanks,
Satya

Answer 1

Hi,
I am using ANSI encoding.But i have changed it to UTF-8 and tried but the result is same.
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://MyURL...
But the view source has the proper content.
My application is unix based so .. it took time to transfer ..take build .. deploy and test.
Even i tried with the javac encoding option in build.xml{ant} as utf-8. But its the same behaviour i am seeing.
Some more info :::
When i hit the same url in mozilla its asking to open/save as file. A bit oddd.
Thanks,
Satya
Edited by: sunsatya on Jun 12, 2009 7:17 AM