International i18n character problems

[Timasmith]

Hi,

I have text entered in a web page which is posted as this:

This is my test!

à, è, ì, ò, ù - À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù

директора Хьюман Ð Ð°Ð¹Ñ‚Ñ Ð’Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ‡ Кеннета РоÑÑа

In my servlet I do the following:

byte[] stringBytesISO = isoString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
utf8String = new String(stringBytesISO, "UTF-8");

This fixed the problems with characters with an accent but the russian
characters are still saving as question marks - is this a JDBC
problem, JSP or Java problem??

thanks

Tim

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

Hi,

I have text entered in a web page which is posted as this:

This is my test!

à, è, ì, ò, ù - À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù

директора Хьюман Ð Ð°Ð¹Ñ‚Ñ Ð’Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ‡ Кеннета РоÑÑа

In my servlet I do the following:

byte[] stringBytesISO = isoString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
utf8String = new String(stringBytesISO, "UTF-8");

This fixed the problems with characters with an accent but the russian
characters are still saving as question marks - is this a JDBC
problem, JSP or Java problem??

thanks

Tim

The problem is an encoding problem. ISO-8859-1 (actually Cp1252, I
believe) is a Western European encoding, so it cannot represent Russian
characters.

 

[Timasmith]

Timasmithwrote:

Hi,

I have text entered in a web page which is posted as this:

This is my test!

à, è, ì, ò, ù - À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù

 директора Хьюман Ð Ð°Ð¹Ñ‚Ñ Ð’Ð¾Ñ‚Ñ‡ Кеннета РоÑÑа

In my servlet I do the following:

       byte[] stringBytesISO = isoString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
       utf8String = new String(stringBytesISO, "UTF-8");

This fixed the problems with characters with an accent but the russian
characters are still saving as question marks - is this a JDBC
problem, JSP or Java problem??

Tim

The problem is an encoding problem. ISO-8859-1 (actually Cp1252, I
believe) is a Western European encoding, so it cannot represent Russian
characters.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Ok, that makes sense. So my post to Google works fine. What encoding
is the string being posted as that I can convert from instead?

 

[DC]

instead accept in unicode encoding/ wide char and then convert it to
multibye (byte[])

 

[Oliver Wong]

Ok, that makes sense. So my post to Google works fine. What encoding
is the string being posted as that I can convert from instead?

Your Usenet posting used quoted-printable
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted_printable), which doesn't apply to
the HTTP protocol AFAIK. The closest equivalent would be to use entity
references
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references)

- Oliver