But to do

byte[ ]b = request.getParameter( "MyParam" ).getBytes(
"UTF-8" );

you must know the charset encoding of the form paramaters (utf-8 in this
case) which leads us to original question.

Edson Alves Pereira wrote:

>  Then, you could create a class that would convert strings from some
>encoding that you don�t known and transform to UTF-8 and that class load its
>configuration from a local .properties file to make it flexible, for
>example:
>
>  public String getParameter( String stName_ )
>  {
>    //This will change the native encoding to you favorite one:
>    byte[ ]b = request.getParameter( "MyParam" ).getBytes(
>"UTF-8" );
>
>    return new String( b );  //To use default encoding:
>    return new String( b, "UTF-8" );  //Some different:
>  }
>
>
>
>
>>----------
>>De:  Daniel H A Lima[SMTP:lima@(protected)]
>>Responder:  Tomcat Users List
>>Enviada:  quinta-feira, 9 de outubro de 2003 11:11
>>Para:  Tomcat Users List
>>Assunto:  Re: Charset encoding issue (again :-))
>>
>>But with this approach, all web apps running under the same JVM will use
>>this encoding. We want to avoid this...
>>
>>Edson Alves Pereira wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>  The best way to solve that is to set -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 in
>>>JAVA_OPTS, with this you ensure that your JVM is using the encoding that
>>>    
>>>
>>you
>>  
>>
>>>want.
>>>
>>>    
>>>



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