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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:16:15+00:00

In my earlier post there was a problem with JSF charset handling, but also

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In my earlier post there was a problem with JSF charset handling, but also the other part of the problem was MySQL connection parameters for inserting data into db. The problem was solved.

But, I migrated the same application from JSP to facelets and the same problem happened again. Characters from input fields are replaced when inserting to database (č is replaced with Ä), but data inserted into db from sql scripts with proper charset are displayed correctly. I’m still using registered filter and page templates are used with head meta tag as following:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2">

If I insert into h:form tag the following attribute:

acceptcharset="iso-8859-2"

I get correct characters in Firefox, but not in IE7.

Is there anything else I should do to make it work?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Add the following line to the filter:

    response.setContentType("text/html;charset=ISO-8859-2");

    Don’t use acceptcharset attribute. IE has serious bugs with it.

    Also, when you’re using a <?xml?> declaration in top of Facelets XHTML page, ensure that it’s using the desired charset or just remove the whole declaration, it’s not strictly required.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>
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