How to set tomcat 8 container character encoding of request and response to UTF-8 intead of ISO-8859-1
We need to set tomcat 8 container character encoding of request and response to UTF-8 intead of ISO-8859-1 , What is the setting for the same We tried setting as mentioned below , https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q1 But that requires creating filter etc. Is there any elegant way where we can just change some configuration set to make it applicable at container level Tomcat 8+ comes bundled with a filter to set the character encoding. This is described in Tomcat 8 Container Provided Filters . This filter needs to be configured in your web.xml file plus a few other changes as