We have a huge problem with Eclipse trying to simply handle Unicode
characters in form submissions with Tomcat.
As we discussed in a separate thread, a modern browser will submit
`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` forms with octects encoded from
UTF-8 bytes (as it should as per HTML5), but the outdated Java Servlet 4
specification requires the servlet container to interpret the octects as
ISO-8859-1 bytes. The Servlet 4 mandated way to work around this is to
add the following to the `WEB-INF/web.xml` file. (See
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54098750/421049 if you need to refresh your
memory.)
<request-character-encoding>UTF-8</request-character-encoding>
Basically if we don't do that, _the page will be broken, the submission
will not be HTML5 compliant, and content will be corrupted_! That's
pretty bad, in my opinion.
Unfortunately adding the above line to `WEB-INF/web.xml` seems to
completely freeze Eclipse and generate a lot of errors. I won't include
the whole stack trace here, but it stems from:
org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.FeatureNotFoundException: Feature
'request-character-encoding' not found.
I've filed [Eclipse Bug
543377](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=543377), but they
are ignoring it. If anyone could contact someone at Eclipse and relate
to them the importance of this, I'd appreciate it.
Garret
P.S. Sometimes it boggles my mind that fundamental pieces of the web
infrastructure completely break with anything but ASCII—in 2019!
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