17 Mar
2009
17 Mar
'09
2:05 p.m.
I don't know whether I can "+1" on this issue, but if I could, I would
definitely "+1" it :-)
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
PS: Why not just have xwiki.cfg's default
be: 'xwiki.encoding=UTF-8' ;
> likewise have web.xml's default for
> com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter's 'encoding' be UTF-8.
These
> encoding errors that oft go unnoticed are probably resulting in a number of
> configuration errors, and perhaps other bug-reports that aren't entirely
> valid, should they depend on encoding issues.
So what exactly do these 6 areas affect (or side-efect) if set or not set?
(1) -Dfile.encoding -> UTF-8
> I fixed this issue by running java with
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 (note the
> lowercase setting suggested in
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Performances seems
> incorrect?).
(2) -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding -> UTF-8
> When that alone didn't work, I also added "
> -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8
(3) -DjavaEncoding -> UTF-8
> -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8" which had been suggested in solving this problem for
> other Tomcat users.
> (Now I run java with the following options:-server -Xms160m -Xmx1024m
> -XX:PermSize=160m -XX:MaxPermSize=320m -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=
> UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8 -Djava.awt.headless=true)
(4) LANG -> UTF-8
> I also saw other suggestions to set LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in the tomcat
> launching script...
(5) com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter's 'encoding' -> UTF-8
> however, I'm not sure which of my
changes "did" it, but i believe that
> following two steps I'd forgotten||skipped in
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Encoding caused the
> correct encoding to be used:
> (1) WEB-INF> diff web.xml.~1~ web.xml
> 23c23
> < <param-value>ISO-8859-1</param-value
> ---
> > <param-value>UTF-8</param-value
(6) xwiki.encoding -> UTF-8
> (2) WEB-INF> diff xwiki.cfg.~2~ xwiki.cfg
> 29c29
> < xwiki.encoding=ISO-8859-1
> ---
> > xwiki.encoding=UTF-8
-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
Of course, this goes without saying. I wonder if this
is needed at all,
since -Dfile.encoding should be enough. Any specific LANG might not be
available on the server (in France it is common to have just fr_FR).
I previously identified 6 areas that I hard-coded over to UTF-8. Some of
these were voodoo, some of these worked-directly. I believe this part (which
also started this thread) was the most relevant:
to jerome(a)xwiki.com, XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org date Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM
subject Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] support for google sitemaps and
webmaster tools? (and why do xwiki RDF's give "unsupported file format"?)
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