Spring/Rest @PathVariable character encoding

Question

In the environment I\'m using (Tomcat 6), percent sequences in path segments apparently are decoded using ISO-8859-1 when being mapped to a @PathVariable.

I\'d like

Answer 1

The path variable is still decoded in ISO-8859-1 for me, even with the Character Encoding Filter. Here is what I had to do to get around this. Please let me know if you have any other ideas!

To see the actual UTF-8 decoded characters on the server, you can just do this and take a look at the value (you need to add "HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest" to your controller parameters):

String requestURI = httpServletRequest.getRequestURI();
String decodedURI = URLDecoder.decode(requestURI, "UTF-8");

I can then do whatever I want (like get the parameter manually from the decoded URI), now that I have the right decoded data on the server.