EAserver - browser encoding changes with different listener

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browser encoding changes with different listener

Marvin Haagsma

2005-06-21, 11:24 am

Hi gang;
Environment: Windows2000Server, EAServer 4.2.2, PB10.0.1.Build6044,
CynergySystems EAF4.0., IE 6.0 sp2.

Our EAServer website (www2.aglc.gov.ab.ca/liquor) provides liquor licensee
information to the public. The logical server uses two http listeners, one
listening inside the firewall, and the other listening externally on a second
NIC.

If I open two IE browsers, and type in the URLs for the internal and external
listeners, respectively, the encoding type for the internal listener
(View-Encoding) shows up as 'Western European (ISO)', but using the external
listener it shows up as 'Unicode (UTF-8)'.

The jsp is set with <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8"> as the first entry in the <head> section. On the server, the
advanced property "com.sybase.jaguar.server.code.set" is set to 'utf8'.

Can anyone tell my how the choice of listener might cause the encoding type to
change? Could the encoding be altered by some network components, ie.
firewalls? The number of bytes arriving at the browser is identical.

I am somewhat perplexed by this, as it is critical that we use UTF-8 to display
certain characters (i.e. accented e's) correctly.

Marvin Haagsma
Systems Analyst,
Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission,
St. Albert, AB
Canada

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Carson Hager

2005-06-21, 1:24 pm

The listener would have nothing to do with this. Have you tried dropping
your browser cache? IE likes to cache content type, character set, etc. for
pages.

When you switch the character set to UTF-8 using the browser, do the
characters show up correctly?

Carson

"Marvin Haagsma" <seemsg@body> wrote in message
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> Hi gang;
> Environment: Windows2000Server, EAServer 4.2.2, PB10.0.1.Build6044,
> CynergySystems EAF4.0., IE 6.0 sp2.
>
> Our EAServer website (www2.aglc.gov.ab.ca/liquor) provides liquor
> licensee
> information to the public. The logical server uses two http listeners,
> one
> listening inside the firewall, and the other listening externally on a
> second
> NIC.
>
> If I open two IE browsers, and type in the URLs for the internal and
> external
> listeners, respectively, the encoding type for the internal listener
> (View-Encoding) shows up as 'Western European (ISO)', but using the
> external
> listener it shows up as 'Unicode (UTF-8)'.
>
> The jsp is set with <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=utf-8"> as the first entry in the <head> section. On the server,
> the
> advanced property "com.sybase.jaguar.server.code.set" is set to 'utf8'.
>
> Can anyone tell my how the choice of listener might cause the encoding
> type to
> change? Could the encoding be altered by some network components, ie.
> firewalls? The number of bytes arriving at the browser is identical.
>
> I am somewhat perplexed by this, as it is critical that we use UTF-8 to
> display
> certain characters (i.e. accented e's) correctly.
>
> Marvin Haagsma
> Systems Analyst,
> Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission,
> St. Albert, AB
> Canada
>
> marvinDOThaagsmaATag
lcdotgovdotabdotcaRE
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>
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