[Archive-access-discuss] wayback utf8 support

[Lukáš M. <lma...@gm...>]

Hello,

we've been using and testing Wayback for several years in WebArchiv.cz 
and we're familiar with the fact, that so far IA's done a lot of effort 
in i18n especially in last releases. In particular, we appreciate 
support for language properties and configuration of individual jsp 
pages, nevertheless we're still facing issues with utf-8 encoding. I'd 
like to ask for experiences from others (non-ascii countries) how they 
solved this issue.

In general, with a new release, we have to always make following changes 
(with assumption that we usually store our language properties in utf-8):

1. Convert all jsp into utf-8
2. Add meta tag "<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
charset=UTF-8">" to JSP in order to browser can recognize right encoding
3. Add directive <%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="utf-8" 
contentType="text/html;charset=utf-8"%>' to each JSP to say that server 
should send response in UTF-8
4. if we also want to send a unicode text from form to server we have to 
implement a filter that sets encoding to request 
(req.setCharacterEncoding(encoding);)

With respect to this changes, we're able to customize each release, 
however it might help to other non-english speaking countries to 
incorporate this into wayback.
Or is there any other intent how to treat this issue?

Thanks in advance for reply.

Best Regards
--
Lukas Matejka
WebArchiv.cz
CZ National Library