java - HttpServletRequest - setCharacterEncoding seems to do nothing

Question

I am trying to read UTF-8 info from the request. I used "request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");", but it seems to do nothing - the info read is non UTF-8.

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you are using tomcat, you should also set the URIEncoding to UTF-8 in your connectors:

<Server port="8105" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
...
    <Service name="Catalina">
        <Connector port="8180" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
        <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
            <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" />
        </Engine>
    </Service>
</Server>