Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 25958] New: - Request.setCharacterEncoding doesn't work properly if you send form via get method and if you go to another page via link

[Jess Holle]

Note that Sun suggests use setCharacterEncoding() for exactly this 
purpose in their new "how-to" article at 
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/MultilingualJSP/.

Amongst other things they say (under the heading "Handling Request 
Parameter Encodings" and after having described 
request.setCharacterEncoding()):

   "If the application always sends pages in UTF-8, it can simply
   specify this encoding as the request encoding."
So Sun is clearly messaging that this is a good, standard means for 
web-app developers to address the problem.

I'd suggest that the out-of-the-box default settings be for the 
suggested Sun techniques to work...

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Jess Holle