The pageEncoding Attribute of page Directive In JSP

This section provides the best illustration about the pageEncoding attribute of the page directive in JSP.

The pageEncoding Attribute of page Directive In JSP

The pageEncoding Attribute of page Directive In JSP

     

This section provides the best illustration about the pageEncoding attribute of the page directive in JSP. This attribute specifies the language that the page uses when the page is sent to the browser. This attribute works like the meta tag of the HTML markup language.

Here, in this section you will see the value of the attribute of the page directive is "GBK" in the PageEncoding.jsp page and the value of the attribute is "ISO-8859-1" in the PageEncoding1.jsp. This is the simple difference between the page PageEncoding.jsp and the page PageEncoding1.jsp. But the output is changed from one-another as you can see by differentiating the Chinese character in both output browser.

Here is the code of the PageEncoding.jsp page:

<%@page pageEncoding="GBK" %>
      <html>
<head><title>Example of pageEncoding attribute of page directive in JSP.</title></head>
      <body>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="ffff00">
			<tr>
<td><strong>æ±This is the example of pageEncoding 
attribute of page directive.</strong></td>
			</tr>
		</table>
	</body>
</html>

Output for the PageEncoding.jsp page:

Here is the code of the PageEncoding1.jsp page:

<%@page pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" %>
       <html><html>
<head><title>Example of pageEncoding attribute of page directive in JSP.</title></head>
       <body>
  <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="ffff00">
    <tr>
     <td><strong>æ±This is the example of pageEncoding 
attribute of page directive.</strong></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>

Output for the PageEncoding1.jsp page:

Download the PageEncoding.jsp page.

Download the PageEncoding1.jsp page.