Can not send special characters (UTF-8) from JSP to Servlet: question marks displayed

Question

I have a problem sending special characters like cyrillic or umlauts from a jsp to a servlet. I would greatly appreciate your help here.

Here is what I have done:

Answer 1

Everything looks fine. Only the System.out.println() console also needs to be configured to interpret the byte stream as UTF-8.

If you're sitting in an IDE like Eclipse, then you can do that by setting Window > Preferences > General > Workspace > Text File Encoding to UTF-8. For other environments, you should be more specific about that so that we can tell how to configure it.