Allow for using the response encoding when escaping HTML characters [SPR-12350]

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Brian Clozel opened SPR-12350 and commented

Once #13931 is fixed, HtmlUtils.htmlescape calls should be updated throughout the framework (e.g. JSP tags, etc) to provide the current response encoding to the method in order to handle HTML escaping properly.

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Affects: 4.0.7, 4.1.1

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

Issue Links:

• #16748 Spring message tag should scape spanish accents properly ("is duplicated by")
• #13931 Greek characters and htmlEscape()
• #16976 Make use of response encoding when HTML escaping the default

Referenced from: commits a0c2104

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Brian Clozel commented

This is fixed as of 4.1.2

Since this can cause behavior changes in existing applications, the fix should be enabled with a servlet context param such as:

<context-param>
      <param-name>responseEncodedHtmlEscape</param-name>
      <param-value>true</param-value>
    </context-param>

This behavior will be the default in Spring Framework 4.2 with #16976