Not able to display the unicode characters using Sitemesh decorators

[gaya3]

Hi,

Our application uses Spring MVC Framework and also it use sitemesh decorators to decorate the page.I have a problem in displaying the unicode characters in my application along with the decorator.

If i exclude the decorator, am able to display the unicode characters, but it should not be the solution. our application has to support the Japanese and chinese characters.


I have tried all the below items but no luck.

a) Included the page encoding and <meta> tag in both decorator and decoratee page

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
 

b) In web.xml, i have included the below parameters for the character encoding filter

<filter>
    <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>encoding</param-name>
        <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
 </filter>
 
 
 <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
 </filter-mapping>
 

c) In sitemesh.xml, i have the below entry

<sitemesh>
    <property name="decorators-file" value="/WEB-INF/decorators.xml"/>
    <excludes file="${decorators-file}"/> 
    <page-parsers>                
        <parser content-type="text/html" class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.parser.HTMLPageParser"/>               
    </page-parsers>
 
    <decorator-mappers>
        <mapper class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.mapper.ConfigDecoratorMapper">
            <param name="config" value="${decorators-file}"/> 
        </mapper>
    </decorator-mappers>
</sitemesh>
 

d) In controller, i have set the character encoding in both request and response.

    request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
 

Thanks in Advance.

[drhowarddrfine]

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