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I have a RESTful service that expects a string in the request. When the string is passed from the browser, the accented characters are garbled(�), as the default browser encoding is ISO-8859-1. If I change browser encoding to UTF-8, accented characters are preserved in the request string.
Is there a way to change the string encoding and re-construct the string in UTF-8 on the server side so that I need not change the browser encoding everytime ?
Thanks
I’ve found that most browsers’ default encodings depend on the system they’re installed on. Most of mine (especially on Windows) default to either ISO-8859-1 or CP1252, which corresponds with this original post. Make sure that your http headers and html meta tags specify UTF-8 encoding, and ensure your servlet container is set to use UTF-8 by default (see http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q8 if you’re using tomcat).
Sometimes you will still get bit by copy-paste from an application using (e.g.) CP1252 being pasted bit-for-bit into a textarea on a UTF-8 page. I have never gotten this to work without garbled characters.