Re: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
Re: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
- Subject: Re: Problems displaying Chinese in WO application
- From: Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:01:42 +0000
Hi Þór!
You can either stick this in your Application's Properties file:
er.extensions.ERXApplication.DefaultEncoding=utf-8
…or this in your application's constructor:
setDefaultEncoding( "UTF-8" );
Cheers,
- hugi
// Hugi Thordarson
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On 11.3.2013, at 08:50, Þór Sigurðsson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Xavier,
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> My browser is set to auto-detection (Normally I use Chrome, but once in a while I fire up other browsers for compatibility tests) - and even if I fix it to UTF-8, it makes no change.
>
> Looking at the source, I see that WebObjects itself replaced the chinese letters with question marks (i.e., it's not the browser which is failing on the chinese output - it's my application).
>
> Thinking back, I don't recall ever having been able to output asian characters, neither chinese nor japanese in WO...
>
> My webpage does contain an utf-8 meta header....
>
> headers and start of document:
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 Apple WebObjects
> cache-control: private
> cache-control: no-cache
> cache-control: no-store
> cache-control: must-revalidate
> cache-control: max-age=0
> expires: Sun, 10-Mar-2013 12:33:53 GMT
> content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> pragma: no-cache
> x-webobjects-loadaverage: 1
> date: Sun, 10-Mar-2013 12:33:53 GMT
> content-length: 2693
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta charset="utf-8">
>
> one thing I notice: The document is presenting itself as UTF-8, but the server (java/WO) is presenting the root as latin-1 (iso88591). Now I can't imagine that being any other than a problem. Then the question remains - where to change that to turn it into a fully-fledged UTF8 service ?
>
> Regards,
> Þór
>
>
>
> On 11.3.2013, at 08:04, Dev WO wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The first thing you could check, is forcing the page to display as UTF-8 in your browser (usually through the View>Text Encoding menu).
>> If it displays the Chinese text correctly, it means you are missing a configuration somewhere:
>> -do you have something like <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> in your page HTML head section?
>> -Are you using Wonder? (it should default to UTF-8 I think or there's a property for that).
>>
>> It shouldn't be a big issue, your setup seems pretty much as it should be.
>>
>> Xavier
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm writing an application that is translated into Icelandic, English and Chinese.
>>>
>>> I have a PostgreSQL database, defined as such:
>>>
>>> List of databases
>>> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
>>> -----------+-------+----------+---------+-------+-------------------
>>> thor | thor | UTF8 | is_IS | is_IS |
>>>
>>> I have _all_ of my project set to use UTF-8 as well.
>>>
>>> A sample of the database translation strings is as such:
>>>
>>> thor=# select * from onlanguagetranslations where key='log_in';
>>> id | lang | key | translation
>>> ----+------+--------+-------------
>>> 25 | 1 | log_in | 24
>>> 26 | 2 | log_in | 25
>>> 27 | 3 | log_in | 26
>>> (3 rows)
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> thor=# select * from onlanguagetranslationentry where translationid in (24, 25, 26);
>>> id | revision | revisiondate | translation | translationid
>>> ----+----------+---------------------+-------------+---------------
>>> 26 | 1 | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 | Log In | 24
>>> 27 | 1 | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 | Innskrá | 25
>>> 28 | 1 | 2013-03-10 00:00:00 | 身份登录 | 26
>>> (3 rows)
>>>
>>> The database is clearly correct ( I can dump it to a file and edit in a editor - SubEthaEdit - which identifies it as UTF8)
>>>
>>> I use a component which display part ( html ) is simply "<wo:str value="$translation" parseHTML="false"/>" and the translation function reads the language translation based on an input key and the session language setting.
>>>
>>> When I display the output in a browser, the English translation shows fine ( no wonder..), the Icelandic one does also show just fine, but the Chinese one only shows "????" instead of "身份登录".
>>>
>>> Does anyone know some magic trick I may perform, sans sacrificing a goat or my firstborn.. ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Þór
>>>
>>>
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