I am from Brazil, and here we have a lot à é ô ó ç, etc. in our words, and this is a problem in my JSF project.
I have master.xhtmlas a template for all my pages, and here it is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/assets/css/bootstrap.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<title>#{masterController.projectName}</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
padding-top: 60px;
padding-bottom: 40px;
}
.sidebar-nav {
padding: 9px 0;
}
</style>
</h:head>
<h:body>
<ui:fragment rendered="#{loginController.isLoggedIn}">
<ui:include src="../includes/top.xhtml"/>
</ui:fragment>
<ui:insert name="body" />
<hr />
<ui:fragment rendered="#{loginController.isLoggedIn}">
<ui:include src="../includes/footer.xhtml" />
</ui:fragment>
</h:body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/assets/js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</html>
As you can see, my xml encondig is correct as my meta tag Content-Type.
I use Eclipse and in my project Properties-> Resources I changed Text file encodingto ISO-8859-1.
I have a label on my page login.xhtmlthat goes inside master.xhtmlthat is called Usuário (User), if I use a symbol áand this word is wrong without it, I get this error:
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: null source
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:321)
root cause
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null source
java.util.EventObject.<init>(Unknown Source)
javax.faces.event.SystemEvent.<init>(SystemEvent.java:67)
javax.faces.event.ComponentSystemEvent.<init>(ComponentSystemEvent.java:69)
javax.faces.event.PostRestoreStateEvent.<init>(PostRestoreStateEvent.java:69)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.deliverPostRestoreStateEvent(RestoreViewPhase.java:256)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.execute(RestoreViewPhase.java:245)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:97)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RestoreViewPhase.doPhase(RestoreViewPhase.java:107)
com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:114)
javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:308)
Accepting á, it works, but, as I said, in Portuguese it is necessary, and I am going to use many other characters with an accent.