Hi Manos, Lukasz, and thanks for the replies. Setting the URIEncoding="UTF-8" in the server.xml didn't do the trick for me, but so did an UTF8Filter in the web.xml.
Best regards, Ulf On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Manos Batsis <manos_li...@geekologue.com>wrote: > Ulf Liedén wrote: > >> when my struts application receives form entries containing french >> character >> (i.e. é è) they are converted to something else, like é è. >> >> This has probably something to do with how the request is encoded. I've >> tried to add >> >> ServletActionContext.getRequest().setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); >> >> to the action class validate() method, and >> >> <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %> >> >> to the JSP, but this doesn't help. Any suggestions? >> > > > If you are using Tomcat, you need to update $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml > > More specifically, you need to add the > > URIEncoding="UTF-8" > > to the Connector element for port 80 or 8080. > > Cheers, > > Manos > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > >