UTF8 fiasco

Question

Hi,
I am having difficulties with displaying UTF8 characters from the output stream from my servlets and JSPs.
Currently running WLS6.1, NT4.0 Sp6a, Oracle 8.1.5 with NLS_LANG set to AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8.
The following junk characters
????%u2013%u2021??%u20AC??%u201C
when pasted on HTML and viewed with with the UTF8 encoding within the browser works fine.
When assigning this to a String:
String language = "????%u2013%u2021??%u20AC??%u201C";
out.println(language);
it gives me junk. Looks like when the servlet generates the output stream, it cuts the 16bit characters to 8bit characters.
My default encoding is CP1252, which may account for why it doesn't recognize the larger value characters (> char(127)). Is there any way around this? I've tried the InputStreamReader and getBytes to manipulate this, but it won't work.

Answer 1

Hi Nohmenn,
Thanks to your reply (and the "Chinese text in JSPs" thread), I managed to get
the whole thing working! Now I can store and retrieve my UTF8 data from the database
AND view UTF raw characters properly on screen.
For the sake of other people who might be having the same difficulties, here's
how the folks in BEA told me how to do it:
Environment:
WinNT Sp6a
Oracle 8.1.5 (UTF-8, NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8)
WLS 6.1
setEnv.cmd:
Add the NLS_lANG=XXX where XXX is your database character set.
This will enable the JDriver to decode/encode data to be written to the database.
web.xml:
Added the following
<context-param>
<param-name>weblogic.httpd.inputCharset./*</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</context-param>
This will parse all input parameters and encode them as UTF8?
weblogic.xml:
Added the following
<charset-params>
<input-charset>
<resource-path>*.jsp</resource-path>
<java-charset-name>UTF8</java-charset-name>
</input-charset>
</charset-params>
This saves explicity specifiying the content type in your JSPs, e.g. response.setContentType("text/html;
charset=UTF8");
Added the following within the <jsp-descriptor> </jsp-descriptor> tags
<jsp-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF8</param-value>
</jsp-param>
I guess this sets the base encoding for the JSPs?
And that did it for me. Thanks Again!