JSTL and foreign characters

pontovic · 2008-04-28 08:06:36

Hi I'm having problems with JSTL and swapping accented foreign vowels for just the vowels without any accent. An example is below. I want to replace all the accents or some browsers will not recognise the é and the link won't work, but this doesn't seem to be working…

28-04-2008 09:06AM

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pontovic

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Hi

I'm having problems with JSTL and swapping accented foreign vowels for just the vowels without any accent. An example is below.
<c:set var="link" value="${fn:replace(link,'é','e')}" />

I want to replace all the accents or some browsers will not recognise the é and the link won't work, but this doesn't seem to be working for me. I have searched the internet and found no answer so if anyone has tried and succeeded in doing this and they would like to impart some wisdom I would be very grateful

Thanks

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#2 28-04-2008 12:26PM

lynchie

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You try using the unicode escape sequence for é in the string? I know in java code you can specify String s="\u00e9"; to represent é. Maybe it will work in the fn:replace function.

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#3 28-04-2008 07:50PM

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Thanks, I'll give that a go then and see how I get on.

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