UTF-8 in AbstractWizardFormController and Freemarker

[YoannM]

Hi all,

I have a little problem here...
I am using Freemarker templates, and when I use it with an AbstractWizardFormController I come across an encoding problem...

Let me explain, The first page of the wizard form controller is displayed just fine, it uses UTF-8 because I am telling it to do so (response.setContentType....), the second as well, it is displayed just well (because it is the normal work flow of the controller). But when I am on the second page, I sometimes need to insert fields (in the form) after the user clicks on submit buttons. So when I see the user clicking on those buttons, I just reload the same page adding some more elements to the form, but here comes the problem... The page reloads and all the UTF-8 encoding is GONE... It tells me the page is in ISO-8859-1.

I though I could try to override the function "processFormSubmission" (of the AbstractWizardFormController) to force the response to be UTF-8 at all time, but that function is final... And I haven't found anything else...

Maybe somebody has a good idea? That would be amazing!

Thanks,
Yoann

[mstralka]

I always add accept-charset="utf-8" to my form tags:

<form action="..." accept-charset="utf-8">

You might also want to make sure that your Freemarker Configuration bean has the "defaultEncoding" property set to UTF-8:

<bean id="freemarkerConfiguration" class="org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean">
...
<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
</bean>

And lastly, are you using Spring's CharacterEncodingFilter?

[YoannM]

Sorry I took my time to answer...
SO yes I am using that already, but what I did to fix everything is to create a new filter and to reset everything to UTF-8 on all responses...

private String encoding;
public void setEncoding(String encoding){
  this.encoding = encoding;
}

public void doFilter(ServletRequest sRequest, .....){
 HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) sRequest;
 HttpServletRequest response = (HttpServletResponse) sResponse;
 response.setContentType("text/html; charset="+this.encoding);
 response.setCharacterEncoding(this.encoding);
 filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
}

It worked... And the "CharacterEncodingFilter" from Spring wasn't enough... It didn't set the content type...

But thanks a lot!!