Grails request parameters encoding issue in Tomcat

Question

My grails app will not decode request parameters correctly.

In config.groovy:

• grails.views.gsp.encoding = \"UTF-8\"
• grails

Answer 1

You need to add URIEncoding='UTF-8' to the Connector elements in conf/server.xml, e.g.

This is described here: https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding