Internationalization: safe transfer of text from client to server

[borbjo]

I have a problem with internationalization.

My program consist of a Swing GUI client which recieves input from the user, a servlet running on Tomcat and a MySQL database.

When I send text from the client I encode it using URLEncoder.encode("text", "UTF-8&quot.

The problem is that when it is recieved in the servlet, it no longer looks URLEncoded (the %´s have been stripped etc.) - so decoding it doesn´t work.

Anyone experienced similar problems?

 

[Cagliostro]

I think if you encode using UTF, you sould use function similat to readUTF to read it correctly.

Ion Filipski

 

[borbjo]

Ok, I use HttpServletRequest's getParameter() method.

Maybe that's where the problem is.

 

[seanmceligot]

Java may be incorrectly converting the text for you.

If the server is on unix set the environment variable LANG=en_US before starting the server.

If the server is on Windows I guess you could try running your server like:

java -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1 -Duser.region=US MyServerMainClass

Sean McEligot