When I read an UTF-8 encoded template with FreeMarker, special chars are rendered correctly in the browser, although freeMarkerConfig.getDefaultEncoding() returns "Cp1252". If I set freeMarkerConfig.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8"), I see only question marks in the browser, although "UTF-8" is the actual encoding of the template file. In every case the http header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" is sent.
Any idea what is wrong?
The output encoding is those of your java machinery. If you create an output file with UTF-FOO, and pass this output file to freemarker generation, the output encoding will be UTF-FOO.
See Charset issues.
With ex. code :
Template templévénmts;
BufferedWriter writ;
OutputStreamWriter encodé;
encodé = new OutputStreamWriter(
new FileOutputStream(new File(f_dirDestination, résultat)), "UTF-8");
writ = new BufferedWriter(
encodé);
templévénmts = f_freemarker.getTemplate(modèle);
templévénmts.process(f_rootDatas, writ);
writ.close();
You can also use FileWriterWithEncoding in commons io.