Enforcing Response Character set

Hi,

I've tried to internationalize my webapplication. Adding every JSP

Code:

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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

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does not do the trick, as WebFlow still renders them as latin-1.
I'm using SWF 2.0.1, and Spring 2.5.4. I render the pages using the Tiles2 engine.
The pages using only Spring-MVC are rendered correctly, the ones with SWF involved does not.
Do I have specify the charset somewhere else? Is there a way, through some listeners, or something to enforce utf-8?

Okay, after a day of googling, and some serious source-diving i can answer my question.

Simply add a filter to your web.xml, with something like this:

Code:

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    <filter>
        <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping >

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It still beats me though why isn't this necessary for pure MVC, only for SWF...