Unicode in Forms

Dear all,
How will be the impact in a Form in 6i if the database is migrated to a unicode database? Is enough to change the NLS_LANG to display Unicode fonts or should I to recompile the Form or change de char or varchar fields?
Thanks a lot !!
Best Regards.
Sara Garcia

Yes Forms 6i supports running in Unicode (UTF8) when Web Deployed or in client server on Unicode compliant clients - Windows NT & 2000.
Your database will of course have to be running in Unicode as well in order to store the full range of characters.
To enable unicode in Forms simply set the characterset portion of NLS_LANG environment variable to UTF8.

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Use of unicode in forms 10g

Can anyone guide through steps to use unicode in forms 10g.
i have set computer environment variable NLS_LANG.
and settings in default.env and nls_lang in regedit all to 'AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 '

Thanks Billy.
Yes you are right.
Here why I discarded that option is,
I may get the source files with changing layouts.
My Actual scenario is as follows.
Initially we developped all the things using PL/SQL packages. Its working fine.
But as per the inputs we received from requirements group, the file structure changes dynamically. and we would able to consider those new columns also. We should be able to changes the rules dynamically.
Lets say, we doing fullouter join on Src_A and Src_B. on columns col1_A and col1_B.
Now the requirement changes in a way that, the join should be done on Src_A and Src_C. on columns col1_A and col_C.
For this I need to define a new package.
Instead of that, I would like to do everything dynamically based on configuration parameters given as input.
Thank you,
Regards,
Gowtham Sen

Unicode Normalization Form??

Hi Folks,
To stay consistent with my Apache host, I've chosen UTF-8 as
my default page
encoding under "New Document" in DW 8 Preferences.
Dreamweaver "Help" implies that you need to specify a
"Unicode Normalization
Form" if you select Unicode (UTF-8). It suggests using
"...Normalization
Form C because it's the most common one used in the Character
Model for the
World Wide Web. Macromedia provides the other three Unicode
Normalization
Forms for completeness."
Is specifying a normalization form absolutely necessary? If
so, is Type C
the proper choice?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
Phil
Lost in the World of Encoding

Normalization type does not apply to UTF-8, so it doesn't
matter. UTF-16
and wider it does. In any case, no harm in specifying type C
anyway.
"Phil Papeman" <plpapeman@remove_comcast.net> wrote in
message
news:eklf99$8ps$[email protected]..
> Dreamweaver "Help" implies that you need to specify a
"Unicode
> Normalization Form" if you select Unicode (UTF-8). It
suggests using
> "...Normalization Form C because it's the most common
one used in the
> Character Model for the World Wide Web. Macromedia
provides the other
> three Unicode Normalization Forms for completeness."
>

Unicode normalisation form C and Apple Safari

Technically, the World Wide Web Consortium specifies normalisation form C. This suggests that Apple Safari 3.2.1 should not establish equivalences (aliases, synonyms) to other coded characters if a coded character has no specified equivalences as per normalisation form C. Nonetheless, Apple Safari 3.2.1 does seem to establish equivalences.
Anyone have any thoughts?
/hh
Reference:
http://unicode.org/faq/normalization.html#6

According to Asmus Freytag, the character LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S was encoded because it involves a semantic distinction as opposed to a stylistic distinction in that writing system
It does have a compatibilty decomposition to "s" , however.
If the World Wide Web Consortium specifies Form C, if no equivalences are established for LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S under Form C, and if HTML is opened from disk in a browser, then LATIN SMALL LETTER S should not be successful as a synonym in a search string, it seems. Thus, Faust should not successfully retrieve Fauſt
I guess that would be correct under String Identity Matching as defined here?
http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#sec-IdentityMatching
It seems true that Edit > Find uses a less restrictive matching system, but it's not clear to me that doing that is contrary to the standards in some way.
It's not just Safari but all apps where you can find ſ by looking for s, right?
and the Related Characters pane in the Character Palette should not show that LATIN SMALL LETTER S and LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S are unconditional synonyms. Rather, they are conditional synonyms.
I'm somewhat mystified as to exactly what the Related Charcters pane is supposed to show, other than characters that look similar. I wonder how Apple chooses them? In any case I would hope the compatiblity decomposition of a character would appear there.
It seems to me that search services can compete by seeming to be more successful, and to seem more successful search services can establish equivalences which are broader than the equivalences that an author is entitled to expect based on specifications and standards.
I think the w3c standards about this are mainly related to the form a text should have on the web, rather than what results search services should return (unless the services perhaps specify they are doing a "string identity match").

How to embed unicode fonts in fillable form.

Hello friends,
I had created a normal unicode Pdf form. IT shows perfectly.
But when i make this form as a fillable pdf the unicode charaters converts into junk and the form is become unreadable.
Attached here a normal unicode pdf form. As well as form_fillable.pdf which is junked after created a fillable
regards
KD

Check this forum post (though that is for 6i, it would be of helpful for you)
How to use unicode fonts in Oracle forms 10g?
-Arun

Unicode convertion for Czech Language

Hi all,
my system is not unicode and I have to conver it into a unicode one because we are going to plan a roll-out project for our czech branch. We have an ECC5.0 with English, German, Italian and Spanish languages.
I have understood, more or less, what we have to do in a technical way, but I would like to know something more about the growing of hardware space needs.
how much will my system grow reasonably after uniocde conversion and czech language installation? 10%, 20%?
Thanks a lot.

Hi,
Have a look at the link below which will help to answer the question.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10317ed9-1c11-2a10-9693-ec0d9a3bc537
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/589d18d9-0b01-0010-ac8a-8a22852061a2
If the Unicode encoding form is UTF -8 database size growth will be 10% of its original size
If it is UTF 16 then it may grow up to 60 to 70% of the original size
Rgds
Radhakrishna D S

"root element is missing" - UTF-8

I have 2 identical files, except they are stored in ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.
"Test ansii.xml":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><e></e>
"Test utf8.xml":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><e></e>
When I look at them in Internet Explorer they show correctly. But when I parse them with SAX in java I get an error when I parse the file stored in UTF-8.
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.*;
public static void testXML(){
    try{
      File ansiiFile=new File("Test ansii.xml");
      File utf8File=new File("Test utf8.xml");
      SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
      SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
      //try ISO-8859-1
      InputSource in = new InputSource(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(ansiiFile),"ISO-8859-1"));
      saxParser.parse(in,new DefaultHandler());
      //try UTF-8
      in = new InputSource(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(utf8File),"UTF-8"));
      saxParser.parse(in,new DefaultHandler());
    }catch(Exception e){
      e.printStackTrace();
}The first file parses well, but when I parse the file encoded in UTF-8 I get this error:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The Document root element is missing.
     at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182)
     at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3170)
     at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:501)
     at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)
     at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)
     at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
     at test.Test.testXML(Test.java:44)
     at test.Test.main(Test.java:25)
Gil

Sigh, I found the answer.
http://www.i18ngurus.com/encyclopedia/byte_order_mark.html
byte order mark
Also known as BOM.
Name given to the Unicode character U+FEFF when used at the beginning of a Unicode byte stream. This invisible character generally know as ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (ZWNBSP) serves to identify unambiguously the Unicode transformation form used (and especially the byte order) for the stream. Indeed U+FFFE is a noncharacter so there is no risk of misinterpretation.
The following represents the byte signature of the character U+FEFF with the various Unicode Transformation Forms:
Bytes Encoding
00 00 FE FF UTF-32, big-endian
FF FE 00 00 UTF-32, little-endian
FE FF UTF-16, big-endian
FF FE UTF-16, little-endian
EF BB BF UTF-8
Historically the ZWNBSP was also used to indicate non-breaking but this use is now deprecated and replaced by the character U+2060 for that purpose.
http://p2p.wrox.com/archive/xslt/2002-11/79.asp
I suspect you edited the stylesheet using a text editor that inserts the
BOM at the start of the file. For example, I think Windows Notepad does
this.
Some XML parsers accept a BOM at the start of a UTF-8 file, others
don't. For example, the Crimson parser that comes with JDK 1.4 doesn't.
You basically need to find a text editor and an XML parser that agree
with each other about whether or not to use a byte order mark.
Alternatively, use a different encoding for the stylesheet, e.g.
iso-8859-1.
The code above found these strange bytes while expecting '<', and crashed of course.
Gil

Problem inserting text with special Hungarian characters into MySQL database

When I insert text into my MySQL db the special Hungarian
characters (ő,ű) they change into "?".
When I check the
<cfoutput>#FORM.special_character#</cfoutput> it gives
me the correct text, things go wrong just when writing it into the
db. My hosting provider said the following: "please try to
evidently specify "latin2" charset with "latin2_hungarian_ci"
collation when performing any operations with tables. It is
supported by the server but not used by default." At my former
hosting provider I had no such problem. Anyway how could I do what
my hosting provider has suggested. I read a PHP related article
that said use "SET NAMES latin2". How could I do such thing in
ColdFusion? Any suggestion? Besides I've tried to use UTF8 and
Latin2 character encoding both on my pages and in the db but with
not much success.
I've also read a French language message here in this forum
that suggested to use:
<cfscript>
setEncoding("form", "utf-8");
setEncoding("url", "utf-8");
</cfscript>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I' ve changed the utf-8 to latin2 and even to iso-8859-2 but
didn't help.
Thanks, Aron

I read that it would be the most straightforward way to do
everything in UTF-8 because it handles well special characters so
I've tried to set up a simple testing environment. Besides I use CF
MX7 and my hosting provider creates the dsn for me so I think the
db driver is JDBC but not sure.
1.) In Dreamweaver I created a page with UTF-8 encoding set
the Unicode Normalization Form to "C" and checked the include
unicode signature (BOM) checkbox. This created a page with the meta
tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />. I've checked the HTTP header with an online
utility at delorie.com and it gave me the following info:
HTTP/1.1, Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8, Server:
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
2.) Then I put the following codes into the top of my page
before everything:
<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding = "utf-8">
<cfset setEncoding("URL", "utf-8")>
<cfset setEncoding("FORM", "utf-8")>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
3.) I wrote some special Hungarian chars
(<p>őű</p>) into the page and they displayed
well all the time.
4.) I've created a simple MySQL db (MySQL Community Edition
5.0.27-community-nt) on my shared hosting server with phpMyAdmin
with default charset of UTF-8 and choosing utf8_hungarian_ci as
default collation. Then I creted a MyISAM table and the collation
was automatically applied to my varchar field into wich I stored
data with special chars. I've checked the properties of the MySQL
server in MySQL-Front prog and found the following settings under
the Variables tab: character_set_client: utf8,
character_set_connection: utf8, character_set_database: latin1,
character_set_results: utf8, character_set_server: latin1,
character_set_system: utf8, collation_connection: utf8_general_ci,
collation_database: latin1_swedish_ci, collation_server:
latin1_swedish_ci.
5.) I wrote a simple insert form into my page and tried it
using both the content of the form field and a hardcoded string
value and even tried to read back the value of the
#FORM.special_char# variable. In each cases the special Hungarian
chars changed to "q" or "p" letters.
Can anybody see something wrong in the above mentioned or
have an idea to test something else?
I am thinking about to try this same page against a db on my
other hosting providers MySQL server.
Here is the to the form:
http://209.85.117.174/pages/proba/chartest/utf8_1/form.cfm
Thanks, Aron

Problem inserting special Hungarian characters into db

Hi,
I've posted this question in the database connection forum
but put it here too because I don't know where to fit better.
I read that it would be the most straightforward way to do
everything in UTF-8 because it handles well special characters so
I've tried to set up a simple testing environment. Besides I use CF
MX7 and my hosting provider creates the dsn for me so I think the
db driver is JDBC but not sure.
1.) In Dreamweaver I created a page with UTF-8 encoding set
the Unicode Normalization Form to "C" and checked the include
unicode signature (BOM) checkbox. This created a page with the meta
tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />. I've checked the HTTP header with an online
utility at delorie.com and it gave me the following info:
HTTP/1.1, Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8, Server:
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
2.) Then I put the following codes into the top of my page
before everything:
<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding = "utf-8">
<cfset setEncoding("URL", "utf-8")>
<cfset setEncoding("FORM", "utf-8")>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
3.) I wrote some special Hungarian chars
(<p>őű</p>) into the page and they displayed
well all the time.
4.) I've created a simple MySQL db (MySQL Community Edition
5.0.27-community-nt) on my shared hosting server with phpMyAdmin
with default charset of UTF-8 and choosing utf8_hungarian_ci as
default collation. Then I creted a MyISAM table and the collation
was automatically applied to my varchar field into wich I stored
data with special chars. I've checked the properties of the MySQL
server in MySQL-Front prog and found the following settings under
the Variables tab: character_set_client: utf8,
character_set_connection: utf8, character_set_database: latin1,
character_set_results: utf8, character_set_server: latin1,
character_set_system: utf8, collation_connection: utf8_general_ci,
collation_database: latin1_swedish_ci, collation_server:
latin1_swedish_ci.
5.) I wrote a simple insert form into my page and tried it
using both the content of the form field and a hardcoded string
value and even tried to read back the value of the
#FORM.special_char# variable. In each cases the special Hungarian
chars changed to "q" or "p" letters.
Can anybody see something wrong in the above mentioned or
have an idea to test something else?
I am thinking about to try this same page against a db on my
other hosting providers MySQL server.
Here is the to the form:
http://209.85.117.174/pages/proba/chartest/utf8_1/form.cfm
Thanks, Aron

Some new info about the advancements in my project:
I've tried to make the insertion at a third hosting
provider's MySQL server with my 'everything is UTF-8' test case and
IT'S DONE! There are my lovely spec chars :-)
Then I've checked the char encoding according -Per's tip in
all of my so far used test MySQL dbs and it reported that
'CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_hungarian_ci' so this part seems to me
OK.
I asked my hosting provider where my production app should
run about the db driver and they told it's JDBC (what version of
Jconnect still donno') and they are ready to append
&characterSetResults=UTF-8 to the JDBC url connection string
(somebody told this tip also as a possible soultion) but they asked
me to provide the complete connection string to be used for my
datasource. I've tried to compose it in my localhost development
environment in ColdFusion Admin but it gave me a Connection
verification failed error. So I think I did something wrong and
need help to write the correct connection string that can be passed
to the hosting provider. So the connection string structure I tried
to use in the JDBC URL field of the datasource area of CFAdmin is
something like this:
jdbc:mysql://someipaddresshere/mydbname&characterSetResults=UTF-8
How can it be corrected?
Thanks, Aron

Change fonts in Form9i Builder, urgent!

Hi all,
I have some problems
1. I want to use unicode font in forms (Form9i Builder). I change the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0\NLS_LANG to AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. But the font of window Object Navgator of Oracle Form Builder is changed to the Lucida Sans Unicode (western) font .
Anyone Can show me how to change I want to change the font of window Object Navgator of Oracle Form Builder to Arial ?
2. I use unicode in forms with vietnamese code, but I can not type the vietnamse. I have way to correct this problem is to paste the text form NotePad to the Lable (of Push Button, exampe). Anyone can how another way for this problems
Many thanks and looks forward the relies
Chung

Ho,
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Frank

I am confused in setting up the basic stuff.

Hi
Under: "Edit' "Preferences" "New Document"
I set the:
Default Document: HTML
Default Extension: .html
Default Document Type (DTD): HTML 4.01 Transitional
Default Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
I check the: Use when opening existing files that don't specify an encoding
Unicode Normalization Form: Gives me 4 choices
C (Canonical Decomposition, followed by Conical Composition)
D (Canonical Decomposition)
KC (Compatibility Decomposition, followed by Conical Composition
KD (Compatibility Decomposition)
Not sure of which one to choose? Need help here...
I Check: Include Unicode Signature (BOM)
I am also getting files that look like: ../../../filename.html
How do I correct this?
Help appreciated
Bob

I Check: Include Unicode Signature (BOM)
There's no reason to use BOM Unicode Signature in plain HTML documents.
It's actually better if you don't specify this.
I am also getting files that look like: ../../../filename.html
Define your site. Go to Site > New Site or Manage Sites > tell DW where your local site files are located on your hard drive.
Under Advanced Settings > Local Info, use Links Relative to Document. Save your site definition settings.
Now when you create a new document & save it, DW will manage your file assets and paths relative to the document and not the site root folder.
Nancy O.

Problem with transfering unicode form data in MULTIPART/FORM-DATA

HI experts,
I have this web based multilingual application. Page 1(form6.jsp) is basic registeration form with 5 fields and one image upload to the server. Page 2(verify.jsp) is another jsp page for verification of UTF data entered in page 1.
page 2 (verify.jsp) also uses a bean called (verify.java) for picking up values. page 3(insertEntry.jsp) is the page for inserting that data into the Database and uses a bean called (logicbean.java).
Now, the problem im facing here is that if i use multipart/form-data, the unicode text filled in page1 is shown as garbage when its is transfered to page2 and displayed on page2. It is all gibberish. But if i do not use multipart/form-data, the unicode text transfered from page1 to page2 is displayed perfectly on page2.Im using devenagari(UTF) language for filling in details.
// form6.jsp
<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*,java.text.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.oreilly.servlet.*" %>
<%
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
<%=session.getValue("main.title")%>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<h1><center><%=session.getValue("main.head")%><Center>
<BODY background="brown.bmp">
<form name=form6 action="verify.jsp" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<center>
<font>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<td colspan=2><center><img src="asok.bmp"></center>
</tr>
<tr>
<td >
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</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><b><%=session.getValue("main.ecname")%></b>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<input type="text" name="votername"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"> <b><%=session.getValue("main.ecsurname")%></b>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<input type="text" name="votersurname"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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<select name="relation" onchange="if(this.selectedIndex!=0){this.form.texthiddenrelation.value=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value}" size="1">
                                   <option>Choose</option>
<option value="father">Father</option>
<option value="mother">Mother</option>
<option value="husband">Husband</option>
</select>
<input type="hidden" name="texthiddenrelation" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><b><%=session.getValue("main.relname")%></b>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp<input type="text" name="parentname">
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><b><%=session.getValue("main.relsurname")%>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp</b><input type="text" name="parentsurname">
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right"><b>3.)<%=session.getValue("main.sex")%></b>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp
<select name="sex" onchange="if(this.selectedIndex!=0){this.form.texthiddensex.value=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value}" size="1">
                                        <option>Choose</option>
                                        <option value="male">Male</option>
<option value="female">Female</option>
<option value="other">Other</option>
</select>
<input type="hidden" name="texthiddensex" /> </td>
<td align="right"><b><%=session.getValue("form6.image")%><input type ="file" name=pic1 onchange={this.form.pic.value=this.form.pic1.value}><input type= hidden name=pic> </b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=2><b>4.)<%=session.getValue("main.age")%></b><input type="text" name="age">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>5.)<%=session.getValue("main.dob")%></b>
<td><b><%=session.getValue("main.dobday")%></b> <select name="cmbday">
<option value="1"> 1 </option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
<option value="6">6</option>
<option value="7">7</option>
<option value="8">8</option>
<option value="9">10</option>
<option value="10">11</option>
<option value="11">12</option>
<option value="12">13</option>
<option value="13">14</option>
<option value="14">15</option>
<option value="15">16</option>
<option value="16">17</option>
<option value="17">18</option>
<option value="18">19</option>
<option value="19">20</option>
<option value="20">21</option>
<option value="21">22</option>
<option value="22">23</option>
<option value="23">24</option>
<option value="24">25</option>
<option value="25">26</option>
<option value="26">27</option>
<option value="28">28</option>
<option value="29">29</option>
<option value="30">30</option>
<option value="31">31</option>
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<option value="jan">JAN</option>
<option value="feb">FEB</option>
<option value="mar">MAR</option>
<option value="apr">APR</option>
<option value="may">MAY</option>
<option value="jun">JUN</option>
<option value="jul">JUL</option>
<option value="aug">AUG</option>
<option value="sep">SEPT</option>
<option value="oct">OCT</option>
<option value="nov">NOV</option>
<option value="dec">DEC</option>
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<option value="1970">1970</option>
<option value="1971">1971</option>
<option value="1972">1972</option>
<option value="1973">1973</option>
<option value="1974">1974</option>
<option value="1975">1975</option>
<option value="1976">1976</option>
<option value="1977">1977</option>
<option value="1978">1978</option>
<option value="1979">1979</option>
<option value="1980">1980</option>
<option value="1981">1981</option>
<option value="1982">1982</option>
<option value="1983">1983</option>
<option value="1984">1984</option>
<option value="1985">1985</option>
<option value="1986">1986</option>
<option value="1987">1987</option>
<option value="1988">1988</option>
<option value="1989">1989</option>
<option value="1990">1990</option>
<option>
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<%@ page import="java.util.*,java.text.*" %>
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%>
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package pack;
import java.lang.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import com.oreilly.servlet.*;
import com.oreilly.servlet.ParameterParser.*;
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public class verify {
String votername = "";
String votersurname = "";
String texthiddenrelation="";
String parentname = "";
String parentsurname = "";
String gender = "";
String texthiddensex="";
String age = "";
String dob = "";
String mergedage="";
String address = "";
String finaladdress="";
String pincode = "";
String state = "";
String city = "";
String constituency = "";
String refno = "";
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Connection dbConn = null;
ParameterParser pp;
private String voternameParam;
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this.request = request;
public void verifyEntry()
throws Exception
/* Connect to the database.*/
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//String nameParam = request.getParameter("name");
MultipartRequest mp;
System.out.println("connected to db2 through insertemployee");
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String voternameParam = request.getParameter("votername");
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System.out.println(voternameParam);
String votersurnameParam = request.getParameter("votersurname");
System.out.println("the votersurname is " + request.getParameter("votersurname"));
String hiddenrelationParam = request.getParameter("texthiddenrelation");
System.out.println("the relation is " + request.getParameter("texthiddenrelation"));
String parentnameParam = request.getParameter("parentname");
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String pincodeParam = request.getParameter("pincode");
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String stateParam = request.getParameter("state");
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System.out.println("the city is " + request.getParameter("city"));
String constituencyParam = request.getParameter("constituency");
System.out.println("the constituency is " + request.getParameter("constituency"));
String refnoParam = request.getParameter("refno");
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public String getvotersurname()
return request.getParameter("votersurname");
public String getvoterrelation()
return request.getParameter("texthiddenrelation");
public String getparentname()
return request.getParameter("parentname");
public String getparentsurname()
return request.getParameter("parentsurname");
public String getage()
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public String getsex()
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public String getpin()
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public String getstate()
return request.getParameter("state");
public String getcity()
return request.getParameter("city");
public String getconst()
return request.getParameter("constituency");
public String getrefno()
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<%@ page import="com.oreilly.servlet.*" %>
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request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
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<%
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
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try
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plz help
thanx in advance
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<filter-name>Set Character Encoding</filter-name>
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