I have a problem with, I think so, encoding in struts. The default encoding on my system is iso-8859-1 and I want to process everything in my webapp with UTF-8, which is the aim of all this. My locale ist german.

What I'm trying to do ist to send a message through a simple form to my action class via a action form, only one string in a textarea. When I do so, everything will be okay and the string will be written in the same form the next time I enter the application. But when I post a link in this textarea with a parameter connected to this link, and I click on this link in the resulting html page, the parameter is ugly. A german umlaut, e.g. Ü or Ä, will be mutilated in my webapp.

Example: My webapp's url is

			

			http://localhost:8080/blank/spike.do
			

		

			

			link
			

		

I've tried URLEncoder and URLDecoder, but this doesn't seem to make a difference. What can I do?

In the following I've attached all my sources of this little webapp, which is not that much, because it's only to find this ugly bug. All files are stored in UTF-8. This webbapp is based on the struts-blank.war. I'm using Struts 1.1. Java 1.4.2_04, Windows XP Home, and Tomcat 5.0.17.

			

			<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
			

			

			

			"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
			

			"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">
			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

		

			

			<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
			

			

			

			PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
			

			"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
			

			

			

			Struts Blank Application
			

			

			

			action
			

			org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
			

			

			config
			

			/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
			

			

			

			debug
			

			2
			

			

			

			detail
			

			2
			

			

			2
			

			

			

			

			action
			

			*.do
			

			

			

			

			index.jsp
			

			

			

			

			/tags/struts-bean
			

			/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld
			

			

			

			

			/tags/struts-html
			

			/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld
			

			

			

			

			/tags/struts-logic
			

			/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld
			

			

			

			

			/tags/struts-nested
			

			/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld
			

			

			

			

			/tags/struts-tiles
			

			/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld
			

			

			

			

		

Welcome.jsp

			

			<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
			

			<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html" prefix="html" %>
			

			<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
			

			<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="utf-8" %>
			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

			

		

SpikeAction.java

			

			package spike;
			

			

			import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
			

			import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
			

			import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
			

			import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
			

			

			import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
			

			import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
			

			

			public class SpikeAction extends Action {
			

			

			public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping actionMapping, ActionForm actionForm,
			

			HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse)
			

			throws Exception {
			

			final SpikeForm form = (SpikeForm) actionForm;
			

			httpServletRequest.setAttribute("editField", form.getEditField());
			

			final String pageName = httpServletRequest.getParameter("pageName");
			

			if (pageName == null) {
			

			httpServletRequest.setAttribute("pageName", "noch nicht gesetzt");
			

			} else {
			

			httpServletRequest.setAttribute("pageName", pageName);
			

			}
			

			return actionMapping.findForward("success");
			

			}
			

			}
			

		

SpikeForm.java

			

			package spike;
			

			

			import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
			

			import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
			

			

			import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
			

			import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
			

			

			public class SpikeForm extends ActionForm {
			

			

			private String editField;
			

			private String save;
			

			

			public String getEditField() {
			

			return editField;
			

			}
			

			

			public void setEditField(final String editField) {
			

			this.editField = editField;
			

			}
			

			

			public String getSave() {
			

			return save;
			

			}
			

			

			public void setSave(final String save) {
			

			this.save = save;
			

			}
			

			

			public void reset(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request) {
			

			try {
			

			request.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
			

			} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
			

			e.printStackTrace();
			

			}
			

			editField = "";
			

			save = null;
			

			}
			

			}