JSF 2.x Dynamic Encoding

Encoding Examples

In an Internationalized world, we need to be able to change the encoding of a JSF page dynamically. In this case, we have some characters encoded in UTF-8, but we want to be able to change the encoding on the page, and have the framework handle the character conversions for our web page.

So how do we do it?

One of the simplest ways is to wrap our page in a <f:view /> tag. The tag wraps the <head/> and <body/> elements in our HTML page. In the example above this is accomplished as shown below: The code for the backing bean is shown below:

EncodingBean.java

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The Netbeans Maven project can be found here: JSF Dynamic Encoding