Hi! I wondered why do all of my servlets receive wrong characters in form data, and have found the answer by looking at org.apache.tomcat.util.RequestUtil.java; it delegates the work of parsing the POST-ed form data to javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils.parsePostData(), which is evil as it takes only the input stream (that is, the bytes) as input with NO ENCODING, so it blibdly assumes ISO-8859-1. Well, for large part of the world outside USA, there are charsets that differ from ISO-8859-1. Here in Hungary we're quite used to ISO-8859-2 (my personal favorite is UTF-8, however). The logic behind javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils.parsePostData() is clearly broken: a method that is supposed to deal with characters while receiving a byte stream. I think Tomcat should plainly not use it, but instead use similar code that also takes an encoding parameter (which is available to the relevant method in org.apache.tomcat.util.RequestUtil). Cheers, Attila. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]