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Asked: 2026-06-10T16:50:48+00:00

So here is my html code: <!doctype html> <html lang=fr> … <form action=servlet method=post>

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So here is my html code:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="fr">
  ...
  <form action="servlet" method="post">
    <textarea name="content" rows="30" cols="80" spellcheck="false"></textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="SEND" />
  </form>
  ...
</html>

And then the servlet part

String content = request.getParameter("content");
System.out.println(content);

And the problem is that if I type “é” in my textarea, the result is printed as “?”. I may be an encoding problem but I can’t make it work. I tried to change the character encoding to UTF-8 in my jsp page and then add the following line to my servlet

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

But it doesn’t change anything. What should I do ? Again, I am a beginner in JSP/Java EE.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok I finally got it working. I tried everything but still got ? instead of é and I suppose it may be my server fault as I don’t use Tomcat or whatever but an embedded Jetty, which configuration is not that clear.

    So I use JavaScript to send my string properly encoded:

    send( encodeURIComponent(txtarea.value) );

    And on the server side I decode it with this little function:

    java.net.URLDecoder.decode(request.getParameter("content"), "utf-8");
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