Question

I have a form which submit details like name, address, affiliations. Here these inputs will in different language like french, Spanish, German, Russian and so on. I point that these inputs are some time have non English keyboard character and are submitted as different character like &,^ and so on.

for example,

this is the input

Instituto de Quı´mica, Universidade de Sa˜ o Paulo, Sa˜ o Paulo,
Brazil

and this is the data that saved in DataBase while I submit the form

Instituto de Qu?´mica, Universidade de Sa˜ o Paulo, Sa˜ o Paulo, Brazil

I have set the character set as UTF-8 in database and in jsp page first later I found that struts 2 form has a tag attribute acceptcharset="UTF-8"

and it has been working for only few other language but not for Spanish, Portuguese nad many more.
so what is the solution for this issue?

Answer 1

I have Fix this by changing UTF-8 in pageEncoding and charset in HTML page where ever I see this and in form i used acceptcharset="UTF-8" and last I get issue in storing it in DB even its charset is charset is UTF-8 so I forced DB connection to use UTF-8 by providing jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/yourDB?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8 in connection url