Requested: Good Website about Internationalization of HTML in Jsp
I have a general question about presenting internationalized text in html in a java environment.
I have the following problem: I have western european encoding as standard setting in my Windows. I have to enable eastern european text (also greek letters) to be presented in html. The text shall be stored via a swing application into a Hypersonic SQL database. This database encodes the special characters in Unicode format (/uXXXX).
After definition of the texts, a java application reads the text from db and shall present the thext via jsp and jsp-tags in html. The first problem I have solved was that the swing application (which also reads the text from db) can show the eastern european text, but the generated html didn't. I found the solution by adding <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> into the beginning of the jsp. The next problem was that javascript didn't work correctly. I have found the solution by adding the correct charset - Definition to the script tag. The next problem I faced was that the input of special chars via html forms did not stored correctly. This problem I have solved by reencoding the field value with a new String(_x.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8") - Statement in the Bean which keeps the entered value and stores it into the db.
As you see it is not easy to enable a internationalized html application.
I have searched the web for a good explanation site about the problem but only got help by collecting info from different sites and by trial and error.
My questions are:
1.) Does anyone know if there are any web sites with a very good, compact and understandable description that describe what someone has to regard to enable a truely internationalized html application, maybe I still have forgotten something.
2.) What would I have to regard when changing the db to let's say postgres, mysql and so on.
