Tomcat default encoding character ? Dfile.encoding option mean ?

I ran accros the ml archives, and i find some useful posts. I've almost solved my problem: i can now display the accent (é è à) using request.setCharacterEncoding(UTF-8); response.setCharacterEncoding(UTF-8); It seems that the default charset for tomcat is ISO 8859 1 The j2ee javadoc says:

Re: Tomcat default encoding character ? Dfile.encoding option mean ?

albrecht andrzejewski wrote: I ran accros the ml archives, and i find some useful posts. I've almost solved my problem: i can now display the accent (é è à) using request.setCharacterEncoding(UTF-8); response.setCharacterEncoding(UTF-8); It seems that the default charset for tomcat is ISO