Question

hi i’m communicating between an http client post techniq and a servlet.
if i send english chars there is no problem but if i send in hebrew i get ????? instead of hebrew, and i use UTF-8.
here is the client’s code

HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/dropboxweb/Delete");
            try {

                List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(
                        3);
                nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("fullpath",full.toString()));
                nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("filename",name));
                nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("user",Config.getInstance().getUsername()));

                post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
                HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);

and this is the servlet

//response.setContentType("text/html;charset=windows-1255");
        //response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");

        request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        final String full_path =  request.getParameter("fullpath");

i tried all the optinos in // none worked.
i’m using tomcat 7.
please help

Answer 1

Refer to this, (it helped me)
What can you recommend to just make everything work? (How to use UTF-8 everywhere)
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q3