Character sets and URL encoding

[thrybergh]

Hello

I have a problem which I think is related to UTF-8 encoding and my browser (IE6).

I am outputting XML data via a Java servlet and transforming it with an XSLT stylesheet using Xalan. Do I need to use a call such as:

  baos.toString("UTF-8")

in my Java code to encode the XML data? Currently I do not, and it DISPLAYS correctly, but creates a link on the page with an invalid href since the characters are not coded correctly.

The link includes the name of an author ("Suárez") as a search parameter. The a should have a grave accent over it. It is displaying this correctly but when I hover over the link I see that it is encoded as a capital Ai with a tilde over the A. This then means the search for this author returns no results.

This is what I get:

http://ws4267:8080/respub/servlet/Search?author=Suárez

This is what I want:

http://ws4267:8080/respub/servlet/Search?author=Suárez

I have the encoding attribute set to "UTF-8" in my XSLT stylesheet.

(If I encode the bytes in the Java code with UTF-8 it displays a small square character instead of the "a" with a grave accent over it.)

Hopefully someone here can offer advice.

Thanks in advance.

 

[LikeThisName]

Did you get a solution? I am interested in this as well

LikeThisName <- ?

 

[thrybergh]

In the end, I used the "ISO-8859-1" charset instead of UTF-8, setting this in my XML and stylesheets.