TOMCAT UTF-8 gotcha

If you are having problem with your encoding running on a platform with other than UTF-8 as a default, try going through your code and make sure request.getParameter() is not called before setting request.setCharEncoding().

example:

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
String adUser = request.getParameter(TAM_AD_USER);


If you have no hook for it, consider making a filter: http://cagan327.blogspot.com/2006/05/utf-8-encoding-fix-tomcat-jsp-etc.html