Ian Pilcher wrote:
Does the subject API ever return anything useful.  Using Tomcat 5, I
can't get it to return anything but null.  Googling around, it seems
that other servlet containers either always return null or always return
some default value (usually ISO-8859-1).

OK, getCharacterEncoding isn't completely useless. It is, however, almost completely useless. AFAICT, it only works if the client includes the encoding in the Content-Type HTTP header. If I manually create an HTTP request with:

    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8

request.getCharacterEncoding returns "UTF-8".

Unfortunately, neither IE nor Mozilla do this.  There is a Mozilla bug
open:

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241540

I encourage anyone who is getting bitten by this issue to vote for this
bug.

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