How to pass Unicode characters as JSP/Servlet request.getParameter?

Question

After a lot of trial and error I still can\'t figure out the problem. The JSP, servlet, and database are all set to accept UTF-8 encoding, but even still whenever I use requ

Answer 1

The Tomcat FAQ covers this topic pretty well. Particularly: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q8 and http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q4

The test JSP given in the FAQ is essentially the one I used when going through Tomcat years ago fixing various encoding issues.