UTF-8 character encoding problem with static content only

[bat]

Hi guys,

once again, I have encountered some problems with handling character encoding while developing my webapp. I wish to use UTF-8 all over my website.
What do I use?
- IntelliJ
- spring 2.5.x
- freemarker
- mysql
- hibernate
The problem appeared when I've changed hosting provider. At first, I have used a hosting company from USA. In order to make UTF-8 work, I had to convert my *.FTL files to UTF-8, which seemed reasonable.

Recently I have changed my provider and static content in my *.FTL files is no longer rendered correctly in the browser. I figured out, that this is because of my change of the encoding in *.FTL. When I change its encoding back to ISO-8859-2, they appear as they should.

My question is: can I avoid converting (FTL or JSP) files back and forth while changing the hosting provider? Is there any way I could avoid this?

Few remarks:
- I have specified UTF-8 encoding for Hibernate, Freemarker, webapp (web.xml), mysql (client & server)
- Data fetched from MYSQL database are being displayed CORRECTLY, even though the rest of the freemarker template, in which they appear, IS NOT render correctly.

Thanks in advance.

[gnandiga]

You have to configure content type for for the freemaker layout view resolver bean.

<property name="contentType" value="text/html;charset=UTF-8"></property>

I dont know if there are any specific freemarker arguments you have to specify, I use velocity and i had to specify velocity specific paramters.

Try this, and see if that helps.

[bat]

Hi, gnandiga!

I've already done that (prior to writing this post) but it didn't help:

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver">
    <property name="cache" value="true" />
    <property name="prefix" value="" />
    <property name="suffix" value=".ftl" />
    <property name="contentType" value="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
</bean>

As I've said earlier - everything works fine if I have UTF-8 file and I'm working with server from USA (I asume they use UTF too), but my other provider seems to use different encoding. I though I could force the servers to treat my files as UTF8 files, but I don't know if this is possible...

[gnandiga]

The server is also needed to push the UTF-8, it is the encoding style of the response.

We use tomcat and make that happen via URIEncoding property on the Connector.

[bat]

Well, the thing is I do not have the power to change anything with the server. I don't think my provider will change the server encoding especially for me. Well, I guess I can rewrite my files and save them with different encoding, but I was trying to find more flexible solution.

Thx.

[martinkouba]

Reason is that your new provider probably is using a Windows server. Thous the default encoding is different because it is based on the operating system.

<bean id="freemarkerConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">
		<property name="templateLoaderPath">
			<value>/WEB-INF/view/ftl/</value>
		</property>
  		<property name="freemarkerSettings">
			<props>
				<prop key="default_encoding">UTF-8</prop>
			</props>
		</property>
	</bean>

	<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver">
		<property name="cache">
			<value>true</value>
		</property>
		<property name="prefix">
			<value></value>
		</property>
		<property name="suffix">
			<value>.ftl</value>
		</property>
		<property name="contentType">
			<value>text/html;charset=UTF-8</value>
		</property>
	</bean>