What I do for this is use a produces annotation like this on the server:
@Produces("application/json;charset=UTF-8")
which causes the content type header to be set like this:
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Clients should just say @Accepts("application/json") to tell the server
they can understand UTF-8 (and pretty much anything else the server might
send). Asking for something specific that is different from what the
server sends is likely to cause you errors.
Likewise, clients should set the content type header appropriately when
they send.
Craig
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Simon Roberts <
simon_at_dancingcloudphotography.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I have a question; partly this is a philosophical thing, partly it
> might have code-level consequences.
>
> If I'm sending structured data (e.g. a JSON object) from the server to the
> client, and the structure contains ... er, I'm not even sure of the right
> terminology, I want to call them "high order Unicode characters", or "text
> that's not plain ASCII" .. I think there are some things I need to pay
> attention to, but I'm not sure what they are.
>
> Can someone give me an outline of the concerns and mechanisms, in
> particular, what does JAX-RS handle automatically, and what do I have to do?
>
> For example, suppose I'm trying to send some Chinese text in JSON. Does
> the JSON conversion have to know the target charset? If so, does JAX-RS
> tell it? Does the JAX-RS infrastructure check the accept-charset header and
> will it ensure the right response? So, for example, if the client asks for
> some specific ISO-8859 character set, but my server machine generally runs
> in UTF-8, will (good) magic occur on output? How about on input? And if
> magic isn't magical, what do I have to do to make this work.
>
> BTW, I realize this is a potentially large topic, so a reference would be
> fine. I tried to look in the Jersey docs, and didn't find anything (might
> have missed it, of couse!)
>
> Many thanks,
> Simon
>
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