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jsfutf-8character-encodingsakai

character encoding in JSF 1.1

I'm developing a tool using JSF 1.1 and I'm having this problem : I have a String in my backing bean which is printed as:

./src.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
./src.cpp:4: error: ‘dsdada’ was not declared in this scope

on a txt file.

But when I put it on a h:inputTextArea, it goes like this:

./src.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
./src.cpp:4: error: ‘dsdada’ was not declared in this scope

-

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
and this
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
</head>

But it didn't work either. can somebody tell me how to fix this. Thanks

/* String[0] as stdout, String[1] as stderr */
String[] results = sshBO.execCommand(cmd, timeout);

/* Done with SSH things */
sshBO.closeSession();

/* Bring the output and err to the presentation */
msg = results[1]+results[0];
FileServices.saveStringToFile("F:/myoutput.txt", msg);
msg = new String(msg.getBytes("UTF8"), "UTF8"); /* makes no difference */

on the JSP pages :

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://sakaiproject.org/jsf/sakai" prefix="sakai" %>

<f:view >
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
</head>
...

<h:inputTextarea disabled="true" value="#{SSH.msg}" styleClass="myTextArea" />
Solution

  • The character ‘ exist in Unicode of the bytes 0xE2 0x80 0x98. When you use the CP1252 (Windows default) encoding to encode those bytes, you get ‘.

    You need to explicitly set the pageEncoding to UTF-8.

    <%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

    This way it will print the characters using UTF-8 and implicitly set the Content-Type header right.