hebrew in a request parameter

[Yair Ben-meir]

> hey
> i call a link like "tmp.jsp?yair=א" (yairs value is an hebrew letter). in tmp.jsp, i 
> use request.getParameter("yair") and get a string which is  - "?" (i looked at the 
> bytes and confirmed that it is not a miss in the encoding, but a real "?"). how do i 
> tell the tomcat how to deal with the encoding of the request parameter?
> thanks
> yair
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