utf8 handling in spring

[ibnaziz]

Hi All,

I am a bit puzzled about the utf8 handling in spring. As I have the following within my web.xml ...

	<filter>
		<filter-name>encodingFilter</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>encodingFilter</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>

... I was under the impression that it would take care of all the utf8 business for me. Well, I was correct up to some extent... until I realised that the string parameters that I was reading in from the request url (within my controllers) were not being rendered properly !!

So although non-english characters were treated fine in other parts of the application... when it came to...

String searchParameter = ServletRequestUtils.getStringParameter( request, "searchParam", "" )

... it messed up. I don't fully understand why.... haven't I already specified in my web.xml that it should all be treated as utf-8 ??

Any pointers will be appreciated... thanks in advance.

[mirror303]

If you are using Tomcat, take a look at this: http://confluence.atlassian.com/disp...s+URI+encoding

If not, you need to figure out how to do a similar thing for your servlet container