cannot set the Clinet browser to UTF-8

[ahchiu]

Dear all,

I use spring mvc + velocity
I have some pages in Chinese and I chose to use utf-8 as the encoding

however, I cannot set the client browser's encoding by any of the following methods:

1. by adding
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
in the velocity template

2. by setting the request and response in the Controller:

public class TestController implements Controller {
public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
return new ModelAndView("test");
}
}

3. or by saving my templates in utf-8 encording.

The client browser always uses iso-8859-1 as the encording

Thanks!
ahchiu

[davison]

specify the property on your view definition; ie in views.properties (or equivalent):
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...a.lang.String)

Regards,

[ahchiu]

Dear davison,

I am new to spring. Could you tell me how can I set the view defiinition of velocity?
Do I set it in my servlet context?

the setting in my test-servlet.xml is

<bean id="velocityConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.veloci ty.VelocityConfigurer" singleton="true">
<property name="resourceLoaderPath"><value>/WEB-INF/velocity/</value></property>

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.veloci ty.VelocityViewResolver">
<property name="cache"><value>true</value></property>
<property name="exposeSpringMacroHelpers"><value>true</value></property>
<property name="prefix"><value>srp/</value></property>
<property name="suffix"><value>.vm</value></property>
</bean>


Where and how should I put the content-type in the servlet context?

Thank you very much!

[davison]

ah ok, if you're using VelocityViewResolver you need to set the property there rather than on the views themselves since you're not configuring views individually. This will set the content type for ALL views resolved (which may be what you want, but just to warn you if not).

On your VelocityViewResolver definition, set the bean property as follows:

 <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver">
  <property name="cache"><value>true</value></property>
  <property name="exposeSpringMacroHelpers"><value>true</value></property>
  <property name="prefix"><value>srp/</value></property>
  <property name="suffix"><value>.vm</value></property>
  <property name="contentType"><value>text/html;charset=UTF-8</value></property>
</bean>

Regards,

[ahchiu]

Dear Davison,

Thank you very very much!

In addition to the content-type property, I found that I also need set the velocity configurations:
input.encoding=utf-8
output.encoding=utf-8

so as to display the utf-8 Chinese characters correctly.

Thanks again!

[ahchiu]

dear davison

where can i find the documentation on the properties of the VelocityViewResolver?


<property name="cache"><value>true</value></property>
<property name="exposeSpringMacroHelpers"><value>true</value></property>
<property name="prefix"><value>srp/</value></property>
<property name="suffix"><value>.vm</value></property>
<property name="contentType"><value>text/html;charset=UTF-8</value></property>

[davison]

the API docs and reference docs can be found linked from the spring site at http://www.springframework.org/documentation.html

Regards,

[Jay Latman]

Hello Darren,

I'm working on an multi-language application and have set all properties the same way as Achiu did as described in this chain. Unfortunately, my browser still displays garbage. For example the string that populates a field in the Velocity template reads: Conexión (spanish)
The display and the sourceView from the browser shows: Conexión which appears to be an incorrect encoding.
My velocity.properties parameters are set correctly to:
input.encoding=UTF-8
output.encoding=UTF-8
The meta tag onthe template is set correctly and the property on the View resolver definition is also set correctly to:
<property name="contentType"><value>text/html;charset=utf-8</value></property>
Here's the printout of the Resquest headers as read by the browser:
-----------------
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Referer: http://localhost:7001/ccert/
Accept-Language: en-us,es;q=0.8,nl-be;q=0.7,it;q=0.5,es-pr;q=0.3,ja;q=0.2
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; Amgen.v1b; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Host: localhost:7001
Content-Length: 31
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
UTF-8 UTF8
These above are returned character encoding from request and response respectively.
-----------------


Please help.

Thanks,

Jay Latman

[Jay Latman]

Hello All,

I'm working on an multi-language application and have set all properties the same way as Achiu did as described in this chain. Unfortunately, my browser still displays garbage. For example the string that populates a field in the Velocity template reads: Conexión (spanish)
The display and the sourceView from the browser shows: Conexión which appears to be an incorrect encoding.
My velocity.properties parameters are set correctly to:
input.encoding=UTF-8
output.encoding=UTF-8
The meta tag onthe template is set correctly and the property on the View resolver definition is also set correctly to:
<property name="contentType"><value>text/html;charset=utf-8</value></property>
Here's the printout of the Resquest headers as read by the browser:
-----------------
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Referer: http://localhost:7001/ccert/
Accept-Language: en-us,es;q=0.8,nl-be;q=0.7,it;q=0.5,es-pr;q=0.3,ja;q=0.2
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; Amgen.v1b; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Host: localhost:7001
Content-Length: 31
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
UTF-8 UTF8
These above are returned character encoding from request and response respectively.
-----------------


Please help.

Thanks,

Jay Latman

[kentuckycyclist]

Hi Jay,

I was wondering if you've found a solution to your problem. I'm seeing a similar issue where we have our template and properties files saved as UTF-8 and all configuration set to use UTF-8.

Any input would be appreciated.