Jakarta Struts Cookbook

12.8. Supporting Character Sets

Problem

Your Struts application needs to display characters from any language correctly.

Solution

Use Tomcat's SetCharacterEncoding filter shown in Example 12-7.

Example 12-7. Using a filter to set the character encoding

/* * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package filters; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.Filter; import javax.servlet.FilterChain; import javax.servlet.FilterConfig; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletRequest; import javax.servlet.ServletResponse; import javax.servlet.UnavailableException; /** * <p>Example filter that sets the character encoding to be used in parsing * the incoming request, either unconditionally or only if the client did not * specify a character encoding. Configuration of this filter is based on * the following initialization parameters:</p> * <ul> * <li><strong>encoding</strong> - The character encoding to be configured * ...