Tapestry: character encoding issue

Question

I have a Tapestry application, that retrieves data from a form, writes it to a database and then displays the result. It all works well as long as no special characters (Ä,

Answer 1

It was indeed a misconfiguration of my server. The following addition to my web.xml solved it (of course this should also work with a non-Spring filter).

    charsetFilter
    org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
    
        encoding
        UTF-8
    



    charsetFilter
    /*