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  1. Struts and UTF-8 encoded strings in fields of a form (4 messages)

    • Posted by: Majid Makki
    • Posted on: July 13 2004 06:29 EDT
    Hi
    Following codes are in one of my ActionForm classes
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    public String getFirstname() {
      return firstname;
    }
    public void setFirstname(String firstname) {
      try {
       this.firstname = new String(firstname.getBytes("UTF-8"), "UTF-8");
        }
        catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
        }
      }
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  2. Struts and UTF-8 encoded strings in fields of a form[ Go to top ]

    ***** The first message was incomplete ******
      ***** Here is the corrected one ******
    Hi
    Following codes are in one of my ActionForm classes
    -------------------------------------
    public String getFirstname() {
      return firstname;
    }
    public void setFirstname(String firstname) {
      try {
       this.firstname = new String(firstname.getBytes("UTF-8"), "UTF-8");
      }
      catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
      }
    }
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    After using input field (named firstname) of the relevant <html:form> fields in order to add a row to DB, content of this field are not inserted to the DB correctly. This content is in Persian(Farsi). I mean instead of a persian word, there are some unknown symbols in the database.
    I want to know if there is a sure way to make the encoding of the content UTF-8 for all phases of processing.

    Aside: I'm sure there's something done undesireably about the encoding of the content before ActionClass.execute(...) is called.

    Thanks
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  3. Struts and UTF-8 encoded strings in fields of a form[ Go to top ]

    Just to make sure, check your database character set encoding also. If you use oracle this might help you: http://dnaugler.cs.semo.edu/oracledocs/a90842/ch12.htm

    Senthil.
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  4. Struts and UTF-8 encoded strings in fields of a form[ Go to top ]

    I'm sure it's not caused by anything but the ActionForm.
    When user types persian words in the field, if the validate method returns non-empty ActionErrors, some unknown symbols will be shown instead of the persian words.

    Thanks again
    Majid Makki
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  5. It's solved[ Go to top ]

    It's solved by adding the following code fragment to the begining of reset(,) and validate(,) methods in ActionForm:
    _______________________________________
        try {
          request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        }
        catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
        }
    ________________________________________

    Thanks for your care
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