Unable to change charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 in glassfish 3.1

Question

I am having problems to change the charset in my web application response from ISO-8859-1 (default) to UTF-8. I already added the VM option -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Answer 1

The -Dfile.encoding is a Oracle JVM specific setting as to how to read Java source files. This doesn't have any influence on the charset as specified in the Content-Type header of the HTTP response.

You need to add the following to your web.xml in order to send the response of all JSPs as UTF-8 and to let it set the appropriate charset in the response header.

    
        *.jsp
        UTF-8
    

See also:

• Unicode - How to get the characters right?