jsp:include parameters changes the page encoding

[Eqbal]

Hi,

I have a jsp:include directive on one of the JSP page and using params
to pass parameter. But it seems that when I do that my page encoding
changes. Before doing specifying the params the
request.getCharacterEncoding was returning null, but when I include
the params then it changes to ISO-8859-1. Any idea why this could be
happenning? I would be fine if it always was null.

 

[John C. Bollinger]

Hi,

I have a jsp:include directive on one of the JSP page and using params
to pass parameter. But it seems that when I do that my page encoding
changes. Before doing specifying the params the
request.getCharacterEncoding was returning null, but when I include
the params then it changes to ISO-8859-1. Any idea why this could be
happenning? I would be fine if it always was null.

I don't know why the servlet container / JSP engine implementation
chooses to do that (although I could offer a guess or two) but you
oughtn't to have any problem with this particular behavior. HTTP
specifies that if a character encoding is not given then ISO-8859-1 is
assumed, therefore the semantics of the request are unchanged.


John Bollinger
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