web.xml encoding problem

[vdaron]

Hi,

I'm trying to load an XML file (UTF-8 encoded) with web.xml and all my special characters are converted to "??"

any idea ?

Sample page here : http://developer.mindtouch.com/User:...mattingProblem

Tks

Vincent

[SteveB]

Check the MIME type that is returned by the server from which you're trying to retrieve the resource from. If it's using text/xml, then web.xml will use ASCII as the charset (unless the MIME type include 'charset=utf-8'). Otherwise, if it uses application/xml, then it should work since that's by default interpreted as UTF-8.

[vdaron]

Thanks Steve,


HTTP HEADERS:

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:27:24 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 4736
Via: 1.1 ecatalog.dlpdomain.com

It's text/xml BUT the xml heading specify the encoding as UTF-8...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
...

Any other idea ?

[SteveB]

The encoding in the XML declaration is useless since by the time it's read the byte stream has already been decoded using Encoding.ASCII instead of Encoding.UTF8. In the context of HTTP, the XML declaration is close to useless. The encoding is entirely managed by the MIME type. Note that if the MIME type had been "text/xml; charset=utf-8" then it would work fine as well.

There is fairly little that can be done when the server sends bad data.

[vdaron]

Thanks Steve

[vdaron]

I had filled a bug report, you can close it

http://bugs.developer.mindtouch.com/...hp?bug_id=7497