RE: [Xins-users] Japanese characters

[Anthony G. <ant...@nl...>]

Neil,

 On the server side the translation from the URL to the correct
java.lang.String is done by the servlet container (in your case Tomcat).

 To do it I call the standard Servlet API:
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.2/javadoc/javax/servlet/ServletReques
t.html
getParameterNames() and getParameter(String name).

I think that it's then a problem of Tomcat configuration.

To test it, you could try with the internal Servlet container (xins run-<api
name>) or with Jetty (http://jetty.mortbay.org/)
Note that some of our unit tests are about sending international characters,
and it seems to work.

Best regards,
Anthony
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  Subject: Re: [Xins-users] Japanese characters


  I used both the auto-generated capi and the specdocs's test forms to send
an standard string with japanese text as "text" to the server (Tomcat
5.5.15, OC4J (which just works with the capi)).

  Both, the specdocs's test forms and the capi transform the Japanese string
into the UTF-8 format specified by W3C at
http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html as specified in
org.xins.common.text.URLEncoding.

  As for that, the client works fine in my opinion.

  However, as the character encoding is not set in the APIServlet of xins
1.4.0, an URL like "
http://127.0.0.1:8080/service/?_function=TestFunction&_convention=_xins-std&
email=aaa%40aa.aa&name=%E3%81%82"
  will be converted from (default) Unicode (or ShiftJIS, not sure) to UTF-8.
Thus, the logic gets some strange characters as input from the parameter
name. That's because actually the URL is correctely UTF-8 and thus the
request's character encoding should be set to UTF-8 before any attempt to
get parameters with getParameter.

  Thank you as well, Anthony. Although, I think there is no problem with
capi or test forms, this setting change could be helpful to enter Japanese
characters directly into the address bar.