VariableDeclaratorId expected

[miguel lisboa]

Hi
in the process of reading this article: Character Conversions from Browser to Database, i used this jsp directive as in the article:

<% @page pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" %>

but i get an error message, saying:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:

An error occurred at line: 1 in the jsp file: /jsp/sayhello.jsp
Syntax error on token "pageEncoding", VariableDeclaratorId expected after this token
1: <% @page pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" %>

as i dont know how to sort this out, here i am asking for help

(as a curiosity, if i comment that line out, i can run the code without any problem)

thanks in advance

[miguel lisboa]

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you'r right: i was induced in error because of the nature of the article i point to, as it deals with encoding and so its html related, i guess

[Bear Bibeault]

Nope. Nothing at all to do with HTML. That's an error with the JSP translator.

[miguel lisboa]

Bear Bibeault wrote: That's an error with the JSP translator.

so, if it is a jsp translator error, how can one fix it?
is there another way of implementing that jsp directive?

[Bear Bibeault]

Sorry, I don't know what it's complaining about. I have rarely used the page directive as the defaults are almost always sufficient.

[miguel lisboa]

ok, thank you

[miguel lisboa]

if i eliminate the space right before the @, i get no complaints at all:

<%@page pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" %>

[Bear Bibeault]

Ha! Yeah, I missed that. The error message (rather poor, if you ask me) directed attention to the attributes. I missed the erroneous space. Doh!

Similarly you can't put a space in scriptlets like <% = and <% !. But then again, one shouldn't be using scriptlets at all anymore.