I have this link in my Struts2 app:
<a href="/MyApp/My.action?w=%E8%A8%80%E8%91%89&key=6f98f58ce">Link</a>
%E8%A8%80%E8%91%89 is shown as 言葉 in the browser status bar, which is good.
PROBLEM: When clicking on this link, Struts2's HttpRequest receives w as garbled text è¨è (seen with Eclipse debug). w is then printed to the JSP, where it shows as è¨è on the browser.
What is the problem? How can I fix it?
Notes:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
This is a simple filter that will do it. You just need to add this filter to your web.xml before the struts2 filter.
public class CharacterEncodingFilter implements Filter
{
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
FilterChain next)
throws IOException, ServletException
{
String encoding = request.getCharacterEncoding();
if (encoding == null || encoding.length() == 0)
{
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
}
next.doFilter(request, response);
}
}
not sure though it will work as have not tried it myself :)
Update
even after the above Filter i was also facing the same issue and after some digging it as per my understanding is due to the fact that application server will by default use the ISO 8859-1 character encoding.
i added the following entry in my tomcat server.xml file
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
URIEncoding="UTF-8" // this is what i added
and now i am able to see the proper character in my jsp page.same we have to do with java default encoding.
read this great article unicode-how-to-get-characters-right by BalusC.
hope this will help you.