> How does the OS effect the decoding / accepting of the submitted
forms?
You might want to check that you have UTF-8 installed as a locale first.
Since you are using Debian do:
bash:# locale -a
If you see UTF-8 in the output then you should su to the user that
starts tomcat (probably root) and
When there is no clue on what the content encoding of a form is and no
default value, most framework end-up using the platform default
encoding (for debian system, it seems to be iso-8859-1). The problem is
most browser do not send the content encoding along with the form, so
the solution is gener
