Insert a Symbol into a TextArea String

[Steve Dyke]

I have a string in a text area say, Dim 3.0 .030. I have a button on the form that will append a +- symbol to this string. However, I need the symbol to be placed between the 3.0 and the .030 or where ever the cursor is located within the string.

[Bear Bibeault]

So what's the first thing that you need to do?

[Eric Pascarello]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Javascript+insert+text+at+cursor+textarea

Eric

[Steve Dyke]

Ok, thanks, I have now got control over where the symbol is inserted. But now I have a new problem. The textarea looks ok but when I submit the textarea text is sent as:

[12/5/07 11:47:17:647 CST] 0000003a SystemOut O Test������

How do I get the A symbols out of the string before it is saved and the last special character should be a theta(String.fromCharCode(248))?

[Eric Pascarello]

Have you set the correct page encoding?

Eric

[Steve Dyke]

I know this is ackward but as far as I know the answer is no, I have not dealt with this issue as of yet. Can you enlighten me as to how to do this?

[Steve Dyke]

The jsp I am using has this in the HEAD Section

http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"

[Eric Pascarello]

See if this helps:

http://bliki.rimuhosting.com/space/knowledgebase/linux/java/working+with+different+character+encodings

Eric

[Steve Dyke]

The character encoding of the servlet response is:

ISO-8859-1 just like the jsp HTML so I still don't get what is wrong.

[Steve Dyke]

Ok, I put:

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

in the servlet doGet and it works. Is this the correct way to fix this issue?
[ December 05, 2007: Message edited by: Steve Dyke ]