On 23.06.2004 23:44, Christopher Painter-Wakefield wrote:
Are you using Tomcat? If you do some searches, you'll probably turn up other postings on this topic. I can't remember all the ins & outs, but supposedly the browsers incorrectly supply encoding information in their requests to Tomcat (ours were POST requests), and Tomcat by default assumes ISO-8859-1 encoding for the submitted form data. This gives you garbage data for anything outside plain ASCII, if your browser sends it in UTF-8. I found some webapp filter class that works with Tomcat to coerce the character encoding (or Tomcat's perception of the encoding) for all requests to UTF-8, to match all of our pages and forms. I can send you our filter and the web.xml entries separately; if you want them, just e-mail me. There may be better solutions now with Tomcat 5, but we have just kept on using this old filter, and it seems to do the trick.
(Now that I think about it, I think this filter is/was supplied with the Tomcat source distribution, maybe. Look for the SetCharacterEncodingFilter class.)
Wouldn't setting 'form-encoding' to UTF-8 do the same?
Joerg
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