Re: what should the charset be in the response to the server

From: Chris Haynes <chris@harvington.org.uk> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:25:37 +0100 Message-ID: <003101c35d00$8970a570$0200000a@ringo> Cc: <www-international@w3.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:17:00 GMT

at August 07, 2003 4:43 PM  "Martin Duerst" commented:
> Using
>      request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
>      request.getParameter("param");
> didn't work last time I tried. Maybe I'll try again.
>

Martin,

Which Servlet container was this?

You have to make sure that the 'setCharacterEncoding()' is called
before any (direct or indirect) attempt to read the parameters.  Jetty
traps this sequence error. Maybe others do not?

Chris