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About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:27:05 GMT

Since I installed RC1 I have problems with Activiti Explorer and encoding.I need use ISO-8859-15I put in catalina.bat (windows environment)set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% %LOGGING_CONFIG% -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-15‍but no works…I put "bin" and "conf" folder (tomcat) from activiti beta2 (that works fine

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:35:40 GMT

Problem is only with task forms…

Users with special characters are showed fine (at Activiti Explorer right top)… or when i'm seeing directly to table in Probe…

Re: About Task forms encoding...

frederikherema1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:04:52 GMT

Explorer and Probe uses UTF-8 as output for rendering all templates, using freemarker. This adds a "charset=utf-8" to the content-type header.

DeploymentResources and Forms aren't fetched through the freemarker, but are streamed directly from the raw bytes in the database.
Here, no charset is defined (content-type is just "text/html" instead of "text/html;charset=utf-8") and probably this is why the forms don't show up as they should (your browser will use the default encoding for this, being you platform encoding).

Can you send an example form/process so we can reproduce this easily so we can create an issue for this?

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:33:43 GMT

Sample init.form

      <table border ="2" bordercolor="#990000" align="center"><tr><td>
      <table border="0" align="center"> 
   <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#990000"> 
    <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Informació de l'alta:</strong></font>
    </td>
      </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Unitat:</td>
    <td>
   <select name="subunitat">
    <option value="AUTOMÓVILES">AUTOMÓVILES </option>
    <option value="HISTÒRIA">HISTÒRIA</option>    
   </select>
    </td>
      </tr>
   </table>
   </td></tr></table>

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:38:11 GMT

If you need a complete project, I can do it…

but I think that if you put this code in any of your forms is enough.

Re: About Task forms encoding...

frederikherema1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:51:46 GMT

The form will do, thanks

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:59:54 GMT

Conflictive words:

Informació
Automóviles
Història
Sueño
Plaça
Güell

Re: About Task forms encoding...

frederikherema1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:08:30 GMT

You should escape these characters, using Ó and Ò according to HTML-specs to be safe.

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:18:59 GMT

Yes.. but If I have a text box (or textarea) then I can't force to an user that use this html encoding…

This solve labels but not info introduced by an application user.

Re: About Task forms encoding...

frederikherema1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:36:11 GMT

I see…

* Can you try this: fill in "Informació" in the "Employee name:" field of the example process "Vacation request" when starting the process.
* Go to Tasks and claim the unassigned task
* Does the task-description look good? (should be something like Vacation request by Informació)
* Click on "Complete Form", top of form has description that should look like this: Informació would like to take 1 day(s) of vacation -> does it?

Currently, the JSON and rendered form doesn't escape any characters to HTML escape-sequences.

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:46:11 GMT

All ok except last point…

Informació looks fine… in task list but not when form is rendered.

I attach an image

Re: About Task forms encoding...

frederikherema1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:59:58 GMT

Okay, thanks. Here's the jira, so you can track it: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-316

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:25:14 GMT

Thanks…

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:58:56 GMT

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-316 is marked to be fix later…

Can I do something to avoid this problem? Now forms are not compatible with spanish or catalan.
For literal I can escape with html escape tags, but can i do something with variables?

Maybe a translator that replaces letter for its escape value?

(In beta2 this problem not occurs)

or can I hack code… changing utf-8 to iso-8859-15?

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:15:37 GMT

Anyone has same problem?

If i modify

ActivitiStreamingWebScript.streamResponse

and add
res.setContentEncoding("ISO-8859-15")

what do you think?

Re: About Task forms encoding...

jcosano — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:09:49 GMT

Hacked…

Now forms are show fine