International characters in request parameters?

[jwenting]

I've made a JSP for a customer contact form.
The customer enters his email address and a message, the data is stored in a database table (and will in the future also be emailed to one of our email addresses).

The message is a simple HTML textarea.
When the text contains special characters (like German Umlaut or Ringel-S characters) the field isn't read correctly using request.getParameter().
On Orion 2.0 everything works as expected, making me believe there's something weird in the way Silverstream handles these characters.

Any idea for a workaround or fix?

 

[slkoni]

We had a problem with foreign characters and this fix from Silverstream solved the problem.

SilverStream support have admitted that there is a problem with SQL server and foreign character sets. Their suggestion is to add the following line to the AgUserIni.props file in the resources directory;

com.sssw.srv.ambry.mbcs.AgOdbc=true

You then need to restart the SilverStream Server.

 

[jwenting]

Cheers, but it isn't SQL Server.

After some experimentation I changed the content-type of the JSPs to UTF-8 which solved it (strangely on Orion this wasn't needed, which got me confused as that's what I used to test them...).