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JSF myfaces character encoding issues

843844Aug 18 2010 — edited Sep 7 2010

The basic problem i have is that i cannot get the copyright symbol or the chevron symbols to display in my pages.

I am using:

myfaces 2.0.0
facelets 1.1.14
richfaces 3.3.3.final
tomcat 6
jdk1.6

I have tried a ton of things to resolve this including:

1.) creating a filter to set the character encoding to utf-8.
2.) overridding the view handler to force calculateCharacterEncoding to always return utf-8
3.) adding <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" charset="UTF-8" /> to my page.
4.) setting different combinations of 'URIEncoding="UTF-8"' and 'useBodyEncodingForURI="true"' in tomcat's server.xml
5.) etc... like trying set encoding on an f:view, using f:verbatim, specifying escape attirbute on some output components.

all with no success.

There is a lot of great information on BalusC's site regarding this problem (http://balusc.blogspot.com/2009/05/unicode-how-to-get-characters-right.html) but I have not been able to resolve it yet.

i have 2 test pages i am using.

if i put these symbols in a jsp (which does NOT go through the faces servlet) it renders fine and the page info shows that it is in utf-8.

<html>

<head>
	<!-- <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> -->
</head>
 
<body>	
	
		
		<br/>copy tag: &copy;
		<br/>js/jsp unicode: &#169;
		<br/>xml unicode: &#xA9;
		<br/>u2460: \u2460
		<br/>u0080: \u0080
		<br/>arrow: &#187;
		<p />
		
	
		
	
</body>
	

</html>

if i put these symbols in an xhtml page (which does go through the faces servlet) i get the black diamond symbols with a ? even though the page info says that it is in utf-8.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">



<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
	xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
	xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
	xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
	xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
  	xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j">

<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" charset="UTF-8" />
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
</head>
 
<body>	
	
	<f:view encoding="utf-8">
		<br/>amp/copy tag: &copy;
		<br/>copy tag: &copy;
		<br/>copy tag w/ pound: #&copy;
		<br/>houtupt: <h:outputText value="&copy;" escape="true"/>
		<br/>houtupt: <h:outputText value="&copy;" escape="false"/>
		<br/>js/jsp unicode: &#169;
		<br/>houtupt: <h:outputText value="&#169;" escape="true"/>
		<br/>houtupt: <h:outputText value="&#169;" escape="false"/>
		<br/>xml unicode: &#xA9;
		<br/>houtupt: <h:outputText value="&#xA9;" escape="true"/>
		<br/>houtupt: <h:outputText value="&#xA9;" escape="false"/>
		<br/>u2460: \u2460 
		<br/>u0080: \u0080
		<br/>arrow: &#187;
		<br/>cdata: <![CDATA[©]]> 
		<p />
	</f:view>			
</body>
	

</html>

on a side note, i have another application that is using myfaces 1.1, facelets 1.1.11, and richfaces 3.1.6 and the unicode symbols work fine.

i had another developer try to use my test xhtml page in his mojarra implementation and it works fine there using facelets 1.1.14 but NOT myfaces or richfaces.

i am convinced that somewhere between the view handler and the faces servlet the encoding is being set or reset but i havent been able to resolve it.

if anyone at all can point me in the right direction i would be eternally greatful.

thanks in advance.

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