Corrupted characters redisplayed in inputs after submitting form

Question

I can normally write czech string to the form:

But after validation (a

Answer 1

Try this solution: http://ibnaziz.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/spring-utf-8-conversion-using-characterencodingfilter/ In my cases it helps (with russian)

In web.xml add Spring's character encoding filter:

    encodingFilter
    org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
    
        encoding
        UTF-8
    
    
        forceEncoding
        true
    
 

 
    encodingFilter
    /*