Hi all I finally got back to the problem and solved it the solution was as other described here: At the start of the application (the first servlet in my case) before any Use of the HttpServletRequest object I've added: "request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");" And that's it the application can receive and send any character in the Unicode set.
Thanks Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Evgeny Gesin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 15:27 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Internationalization problem Some sources say to set in catalina.sh JAVA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding="UTF8" What is relation of that parameter and Web/JSP/i18n ? Evgeny Gesin Javadesk --- "STOCKHOLM, Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > é is "é" in UTF-8. > It means that your browser is returning UTF-8, and > your servlet/JSP > is expecting ISO-8859-1. > Check how your JSP is configured to handle the > character set. > To use UTF-8 in your JSP : > <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" > pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> > and make sure that the charset in your JSP/HTML is > defined as UTF-8 : > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=UTF-8"> > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Jonathan Abramsohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : mardi 2 mars 2004 11:48 > À : Tomcat Users List > Objet : Internationalization problem > > > > I have problem with French special characters, like > e with "accent" (é), > When I get this character from user input, tomcat > gets it as: é. > Although I didn't check this in other languages I > presume the same problems should also occur in > German and Spanish and probably other languages. > I'm working with tomcat 4.0.1 on Linux RH 9.0 > Anyone knows how to solve this? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you're looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content. ** ************************************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]