Spring message tag should scape spanish accents properly [SPR-12132]

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José Ángel Rey Liñares opened SPR-12132 and commented

The spring message tag is not scaping html properly when spanish accent is present and htmlEscape attribute is set to true.
Example:
Text code (in property file):
label.unsubscribe=Cancelar subscripci\u00f3n
JSP javascript asignation:
$labelUnsubscribe = '<spring:message code="label.unsubscribe" htmlEscape="true" />';
Expected output:
Cancelar subscripción
Obtained output:
Cancelar subscripci& oacute;n --> note the &Xcute not scaped.
'EncodingFilter' is set to UTF-8.
When the htmlEscape attribute is set to false or the property is not specified, the message is shown correctly, but we think that the output should be scaped correctly when the property is set to true, according with the documentation.

URL of the same issue reported by another user on stackoverflow is provided. In our case the issues occurs when the property is set to htmlEscape="true" in a explicit way.

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Affects: 4.0.6

Reference URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17575723/spring-message-in-javascript-cannot-display-spanish-accent-characters-properly

Attachments:

• ObtainedOutputhtmlScape=false.png (2.30 kB)
• ObtainedOutputhtmlScape=true.png (3.81 kB)

Issue Links:

• #16955 Allow for using the response encoding when escaping HTML characters ("duplicates")

Referenced from: commits a0c2104

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[spring-projects-issues]

José Ángel Rey Liñares commented

Added a little maven project showing an example reproducing what we think the problem is: https://github.com/jarey/SpringMessageIssueExample

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

@bclozel, could you have a look at this one please since you've been into the HTML escaping topic lately?

Juergen

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Brian Clozel commented

Juergen Hoeller Sure!

[spring-projects-issues]

Brian Clozel commented

Issue confirmed with a repro project.
This will be fixed by #16955.