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  1. Problem for French display in XML/XSL (7 messages)

    • Posted by: George Li
    • Posted on: May 16 2003 10:13 EDT
    I have a paragraph of French to display on browser, if it is displayed directly by JSP, it works fine. But if I put the French to XML, and display through XSL to JSP, the French characters are in disorder. Not only French, the apostrophe '
    is changed into question mark ?. Our environment is: Weblogic 6.1, JDK1.3, Solaris.

    If it is on WIndows, no such problem.

    Did any one have the same problem? It is appreciate to help me.
    Thanks
    George
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  2. Problem for French display in XML/XSL[ Go to top ]

    George,

    Do you use the same XML parser on both environments ?
    An XML parser is not supposed to support every encoding suitable for French however Unicode is a must so if this is the case try using Unicode.

    Cheers
    Kalin
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  3. Answer for[ Go to top ]

    Hi, Kalin

       Yes, I use the same XML parser for WIndows and Solaris, The xml parser is defined by WebLogic JSP tag, I pasrser XML in JSP like the folowing piece of code. I also try XML encoding like "UTF-8" and "ISO-8859-1", neither works on Solaris.

    <%@ taglib uri="xmlx.tld" prefix="x"%>
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE></TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <% some things ... %>
    <x:xslt stylesheet="mystyl.xsl">
    <x:xml>
    <%=responseXml ==null? "": responseXml%>
    </x:xml>
    </x:xslt>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>
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  4. Answer for[ Go to top ]

    Hi again,

    In fact there are too many places encoding could be broken :-(
    Just examine at every step where you actually lose the desired encoding.
    ... just a reminder ... when you changed the encoding to UTF-8 did you convert the xml file to UTF-8 or you simply changed the encoding attribute.

    Kalin
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  5. XML encoding[ Go to top ]

    I simply changed the encoding attribute. But how to convert the XML file to UTF-8

    Thanks
    George
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  6. Problem for French display in XML/XSL[ Go to top ]

    George,

    Don't know if it will help in your case, but we added the following switch to the JVM start in the startup script for WLS:

     -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1

    We also use ISO-8859-1 as the xml encoding for any transformations.

    Thomas

    > I have a paragraph of French to display on browser, if it is displayed directly by JSP, it works fine. But if I put the French to XML, and display through XSL to JSP, the French characters are in disorder. Not only French, the apostrophe '
    > is changed into question mark ?. Our environment is: Weblogic 6.1, JDK1.3, Solaris.
    >
    > If it is on WIndows, no such problem.
    >
    > Did any one have the same problem? It is appreciate to help me.
    > Thanks
    > George
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  7. The problem is solved[ Go to top ]

    Hi, Thomas

        The problem is solved, I use
                   -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
                    and encoding attribute to UTF-8 in XML file.

        Thanks a lot

     George
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  8. Not all apostrophes are created equal[ Go to top ]

    Check your text in a hex editor, and you will find that not all apostrophes are the same. There are two: &27 and &92. The ones that are 92 will often be converted to question marks (?).
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