why java code not converting text to utf8 characters?

Question

My jsp page has encoding as follows :

<%@ page
contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"
%>

<%

response.setHeader("Cache-control", "no-cache");
response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
response.setDateHeader("Expires", 0);
response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=utf-8");
%>

javascript code printing greek characters well in firebug following is the code :

function save() {
console.log(document.editDistributionListForm.elements['name'].value); //this line prints greek characters
  document.editDistributionListForm.elements['subAction'].value='submit';
  document.editDistributionListForm.submit();
}

when 'name' value as above is sent to the struts action, the string is not printing greek characters instead it prints ????????????????

Greek Characters entered were : αβγδεζηθ

Struts Bean (Sample code) :

public void setName(String name) {
                this.name = name;
        }

        public String getName() {
                return name;
        }

Struts Action (Sample code) :

protected ActionForward updateList(ActionMapping mapping,
                                HttpServletRequest request,
                                EditListForm form)
                        throws CannotOverwriteExistingListException, EmptyListException,
                                ListUpdateException {
log.debug("form.getName :: "+form.getName()); //this line when printed prints (???) 

}

when data is sent from html to java i.e. from browser to server the string gets converted from greek to ???? what i am doing wrong. I am not able to identify what i am missing .. .

Please help.

Answer 1

There are no Greek characters in UTF-8.

I think you should reprogram your program to make it print UTF-16 characters (which do include Greek characters). (Change the page encoding from UTF-8 to UTF-16)