Character Encoding not working for Japanese ,Chinese and Korean

Question

I have Unicode characters for all the European countries and for a few Asian countries like Japan, China, Korean. All the Unicodes are working fine for European countries except for Japan, China, Korean.

Example for Japan:

dear_name=\u30c7\u30a3\u30fc\u30e9\u30fc

Example for China:

dear_name=\u4eb2\u7231\u7684

Example for Korean:

dear_name=\uce5c\uc560\ud558\ub294

Example for Sweden (this one is working fine):

dear_name=Till

Default character encoding is UTF-8.

Template template = VelocityFactory.getTemplate("test.vm", "UTF-8");
   String messageText = VelocityFactory.merge(context, template, charset);

While debuging the merge method I found out that the merged result is getting grabled here itself for chinese,Japanese,korean.

public static String merge(VelocityContext context, Template template, String charset) throws Exception {

        String newResult = null;

        ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        OutputStreamWriter streamWriter;
        if(charset != null && charset.length() > 0) {
            streamWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, charset);
        } else {
            streamWriter = new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream);
        }

        template.merge(context, streamWriter);
        streamWriter.close(); 

        mergedResult = outputStream.toString();                 
        outputStream.close();

        return newResult;        
    }
}

Below is the mail template and only for header it is displaying in correct format for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, but not for the body:

<html>
    <head>      
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="$contentType">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="content">
            <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left: 0px;">
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="textBody" style="margin-bottom: 120px;">
                            <tr>
                                <td valign="bottom" class="mainHeader" nowrap>
                                    $velocityUtils.getMessage("test")
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td colspan="2">
                                    <img src="$imageBar" class="clipped">
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                        <div id="info" class="textBody">$velocityUtils.getMessage("test1")<br><br></div>    
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Any information how to fix this? How do i encode correctly??

Scary Wombat Scary Wombat · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-06T05:58:58

try adding this to the top of your JSP

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

Character Encoding not working for Japanese ,Chinese and Korean

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