Roo Encoding issue

[astronaute]

Hello,

When generating a simple web project it seems that the encoding is somehow broken, at least on my computer.

It seems that it doesn't sent data in UTF-8 format, so the special characters (such as éàô etc.) cannot be interpreted correctly.

I tried a simple web project and tested with System.out.println("éééé"); without luck, and also a Spring-Flex project:
When accessing the exposed AMF service from Flex, the character encoding is also broken.

Needless to say that everything is set to use UTF-8 (Maven,Tomcat, Hibernate, Eclipse workspace), and that everything works as expected if NOT using Roo.

Windows 7 x64
STS 2.5.2 32bit
Roo 1.1.1.RELEASE
Maven 3.0.2

Anyone else having similar issues ?

[djorco]

Hello Astronaute,

I'm working with a simple jspx, spring, hibernate project and have the same issue. I use characters like á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ.

My issues are in:
* Inputs fields in post actions
* Labels code in message.properties and applications.properties files.

I try solve this with replace all "ISO-8859-1" to "UTF-8" in all .jspx and .xml files in the project, and a lot of tomcat files with same string.

My development environment is:
Linux Mint 9 x64
STS 2.5.0 32bit
Roo 1.1.0.RELEASE
Maven 3.0-SNAPSHOT

Please help us!!

[clandestino_bgd]

Hello,
is there any update on this?
We are having the same problem.

thanks & best,
Milan

[Tigra]

Hi folks,
I've experienced such problem using MySQL... In default generated project all special characters wrote to DB as "???"

Update database.properties with

database.url=jdbc\:mysql\://localhost\:3306/[YOUR_DB_NAME]?autoReconnect\=true&useUnicode\=true&characterEnc oding\=UTF-8

[astronaute]

Hi folks,
I've experienced such problem using MySQL... In default generated project all special characters wrote to DB as "???"

Update database.properties with

As I already stated, even the simple...

System.out.println("éééé");

... is broken, it has nothing to do with the database, which btw is set to UTF-8 as is everything else on my computer, so it is definitely a Roo issue*

[clandestino_bgd]

just to confirm that

database.url=jdbc\:mysql\://localhost\:3306/[YOUR_DB_NAME]?autoReconnect\=true&useUnicode\=true&characterEnc oding\=UTF-8

fixed our issue with encoding.

thanks Tigra,
best,
Milan

[djorco]

just to confirm that



fixed our issue with encoding.

thanks Tigra,
best,
Milan

Clandestino: in my mysql the encoding is working perfect. My problem is from the POST to the method in the controller class for example:

In the page I write "ééé" in a input box, and do a post
In the controller, the input box content is "ééé" the problem persist with bind with a bean as controller method parameter.

I patched this with a corrector method, but it's only working in the post to server and if the string content is in lowercase()

st = st.replaceAll("á", "á");
st = st.replaceAll("é", "é");
st = st.replaceAll("Ã*", "í");
st = st.replaceAll("ó", "ó");
st = st.replaceAll("ú", "ú");
st = st.replaceAll("ñ", "ñ");

[clandestino_bgd]

Djorco,
I don't know what to suggest apart from already reported on forum and jira.
Basically 3 things need to be done:
1. database url in database properties
2. character encoding filter mapping as first in web.xml
3. your database charset is UTF-8

With those we don't have any problem submitting german and russian characters in roo generated forms.

hth,
Milan