Form submission Encoding Problem - saving Japanese text to the database

[boney]

hello All,

Am a new bie to web programming

am using a servlet to retrieve field values from a web form to save
them to the database

Am able to restrict the end - user to enter information in the japanese
language but the issue is how to transmit non us- ascii charaters to
the server and save them to the databse..what is the standard way of
doing this ?

in short implementing user input in laguage other than english..

Thanks,
boney

 

[Oliver Wong]

hello All,

Am a new bie to web programming

am using a servlet to retrieve field values from a web form to save
them to the database

Am able to restrict the end - user to enter information in the japanese
language but the issue is how to transmit non us- ascii charaters to
the server and save them to the databse..what is the standard way of
doing this ?

in short implementing user input in laguage other than english..

Do you know if your DB supports unicode strings? If so, you should
probably read the documentation to see how to store and retrieve such
strings. If not, then you might want to store the strings as BLOBs, and do
the encoding and decoding manually.

- Oliver

 

[John]

Am able to restrict the end - user to enter information in the japanese
language but the issue is how to transmit non us- ascii charaters to
the server and save them to the databse..what is the standard way of
doing this ?

This might help:
Character Conversions from Browser to Database
(http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/HTTPCharset/)

Regards,
John O'Conner