Question

How can we achieve following in JSTL –

<% response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); %>

I know we can refer to response object as below but how we can we call setter method?

${pageContext.response} 

Thanks.

Answer 1

That’s supposed to be done by the following line in top of your JSP:

<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

Or, if you want to apply this on all JSPs, add the following to your web.xml:

<jsp-config>
    <jsp-property-group>
        <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
        <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
    </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>

See also:

• Unicode – How to get the characters right? – JSP/Servlet response