[WW-3926] Inconsistent encoding behaviour in Struts 2.3.7 in JSPs, selects and submit buttons using i18n

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.8
• Component/s: Plugin - Tiles

Environment

Tomcat 7, Linux, Java 1.6

• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: Markus Fischer
• Created: 22/Nov/12 12:30
• Updated: 16/Dec/12 10:26
• Resolved: 04/Dec/12 13:57

Description

I experience some problems with umlauts after upgrading from Struts 2.3.4.1 to 2.3.7:

Text with umlauts like 'ä' from properties files get scrambled in the JSPs, selects and submit buttons.

file -i shows that properties file are encoded as iso-8859-1. which they should be, as far as I know. Recoding the properties files to UTF-8 actually resolves the problem for the JSPs. But within the selects and submit buttons the problem persists.

In addition text from a databases is also scrambled, but only in selects and not when using <s:property value=...

This behaviour is new since version 2.3.7. I updated:

• struts2-core
• struts2-tiles-plugin
• xwork-core

Adding acceptcharset="utf-8" to the forms does not help.
I have in the JSPs <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> and <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">.
Tomcat 7 is running with URIEncoding="UTF-8"
MySQL is used with pooled connections (c3p0) by connection with: jdbcUrl="jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/mydatabase?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8...