Setting Character Set after SP Upgrade

[thomas_jung]

We found a little problem (new feature?) the other day after we applied our latest round of support packages. It relates to some of the examples from my last weblog, /people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/07/13/bsp-150-a-developer146s-journal-part-vii--dealing-with-multiple-languages-english-german-spanish-thai-and-polish , so I thought I would post the solutin in this forum as well.

We went from Kernel 620 patch 1248 and component 620 SP35 to Kernel 640 patch 27 and component 620 SP42. When we did this the following code examples stopped working:

  me->set_mime_type( `text/html; charset=utf-8` ).
or 
  
  response->set_header_field( name = 'content-type'
                              value = `text/html; charset=utf-8` ).

It appears that now the utf-8 specification must be in all upper case: UTF-8. Once I change the code to the following everything starts working again:

  me->set_mime_type( `text/html; charset=UTF-8` ).
or 
  
  response->set_header_field( name = 'content-type'
                              value = `text/html; charset=UTF-8` ).

[former_member181879]

Thomas,

There was a change some time ago at kernel level with character encoding. Effectively, if no charset is set, the ICM in kernel will set the charset according to sy-langu on non-unicode systems, and always to utf-8 on unicode systems.

This charset has to be set always before any character is written into response (cdata call). So configure it for the page, or do the direct response calls.

The upper case thing is annoying.

If possible, I would request that you always open OSS tickets for these problems. Then I can route them to the correct group. Given you description I will ask so long, and see what is answer.

thanks, brian

[Former Member]

Thanks for the heads up Thomas. We're sitting at SP42 as well but not come across this problem.

Only one problem so far and that is with SP41 one of our BSP's all the images are dead, cache won't load them says that are not valid but we can check them out and edit them... Of course not sure if it's related to the update or not was the only change on the PC before the images were dead??

[former_member181879]

Craig,

We are aware of a problem in MIME repos that we have now seen only at two customers. It is in another group. My preference would be that you open OSS message, with exactly the URL that does not load. Write in the top, all capitals, "ROUTE DEV SUPPORT, TO me".

(I have emailed you a workaround. However, I would prefer the OSS route, and NOT the workaround, so that I can nail down this problem, and proof for once and all it, and have another group fix it. OSS message is required to debug and verify in your system.)

++bcm

[Former Member]

We've been analyzing ourselves before opening the OSS ticket but we'll go ahead and open it.