Archive for February, 2006

• Struts, UTF-8 and form submissions

  Struts will convert data that is received from form submissions to a default encoding because most browsers don’t set the content type.
  To stop struts mangling the data you need to set the content type with a filter before it gets as far as the struts layer.
  Use the filter below

  package filters;

  import java.io.IOException;
  import javax.servlet.*;

  public class UTF8Filter implements [...]

  February 23rd, 2006