You have to specify the file.encoding system property export CATALINA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=iso-8859-1" Then restart tomcat.
HTH, Andy -----Original Message----- From: David Del Sacramento [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2003 15:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Special characters Hi, I installed Tomcat 4.1.24 in a Solaris server and I'm using a JSP form that received special characters like: á é Ó É ú. The action of the form send an e-mail (using javamail). When de tomcat process the e-mail changes the special characters with "?". I used the directive <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" %> but it isn't working. I installed Tomcat 4.0.6 and the error is the same. I used java.net.URLDecoder and java.net.URLEncode and isn´t work too. Can you help me? Regards, David __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]