[Helma-user] Skin files and character encoding

Thu Jan 10 09:51:37 CET 2008

Thanks for the hints, maks.

However, the creation of the skin files is not the real issue since I
can edited them via web form, anyway.

And I can rule out that the characters are ill-transformed when saving 
the form data to file because the skin files look ok in a UTF-8 capable
text editor (TextMate) as well as in Eclipse after setting the text
encoding to UTF-8 as described by you.

My problem is still that skin files containing UTF-8 characters are
not displayed correctly when rendered as skins by Helma -- unless
I add the -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 switch.

And adding this switch seems to obsolete the skinCharset property,
doesn't it? Except for me having misunderstood this property...

Ciao,
tobi

-----Original Message-----
From: helma-user-bounces at helma.org on behalf of Maksim Lin for technical support mailling lists
Sent: Thu 10-Jan-08 02:02
To: Helma User Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Helma-user] Skin files and character encoding

oh and just one last thing, I just found that you can set the default encoding in eclipse using Preferences->Workspace-Text Encoding (mine was set to default to cp1252 for some reason), but once you set it to UTF8 you can create the file as I described directly using eclipse and the beolow file displays correctly as:

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        ???      
        <br/>
        ent: €
        <br/>
        Some bad UTF-8 characters:   
    </body>
</html> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: helma-user-bounces at helma.org 
> [mailto:helma-user-bounces at helma.org] On Behalf Of Maksim Lin 
> for technical support mailling lists
> Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2008 11:07
> To: Helma User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Helma-user] Skin files and character encoding
> 
> Hi Tobi,
> 
> The only way I could get this to work was going to a webpage 
> (http://www.tony-franks.co.uk/UTF-8.htm) which had the euro 
> char on it, but defined using a html entity code, copying 
> that into a windows text editor 
> (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html) set to UTF8 encoding 
> editing the skin file. opening the file in eclipse however shows:
> 
> <html>
>     <head>
>         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
> content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
>     </head>
>     <body>
>         â,¬â,¬â,¬     
>         <br/>
>         ent: €
>         <br/>
>         Some bad UTF-8 characters: ??
>     </body>
> </html>
> 
> Which seems to default to be because eclipses defaulting std 
> western char encoding.
> I've also attached the skin file but not sure if it will go 
> through the email system ok.
> Hope that helps...
> 
> Maks.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: helma-user-bounces at helma.org
> > [mailto:helma-user-bounces at helma.org] On Behalf Of 
> > tobias.schaefer at orf.at
> > Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2008 07:30
> > To: helma-user at helma.org
> > Subject: [Helma-user] Skin files and character encoding
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I just experienced a confusing issue with character encoding, too:
> >
> > Trying to display the contents of a skin file encoded with
> > UTF-8 I had to set the -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 switch in the 
> Java options 
> > as suggested by Rainer Rynesch.
> >
> > Otherwise I get incorrect output of UTF-8 characters, e.g.
> > something like ‚Ç¨‚Ç¨‚Ç¨‚Ç¨‚Ç¨ instead of five euro symbols...
> >
> > Of course I have set charset and skinCharset to UTF-8 in 
> > app.properties.
> >
> > Shouldn't this be enough to achieve the correct output?
> >
> > Could anybody please verify if the test setup below 
> displays correctly 
> > the euro symbols in his browser?
> >
> > Ciao,
> > tobi
> >
> > --
> >
> > Here's the test setup:
> >
> >
> > app.properties
> > --------------
> > charset = UTF8
> > skinCharset = UTF8
> >
> >
> > Global/Foo.skin
> > ---------------
> > Some UTF-8 characters: €€€€€
> >
> >
> > Global/Global.js
> > ----------------
> > Root.prototype.main_action = function() {
> >    res.write(app.getSkinfilesInPath(res.skinpath).Global.Foo);
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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