I think you can set the -DFileEncoding flag or something to be UTF-8 in the
java options of the script you use to start tomcat.

On 1/11/07, PATTUS, Jean-Philippe <jppattus@(protected):
>
> Hello the list,
>
> i'm trying to display chinese chars in my web application.
> I have managed to display these characters by adding this following
> directive in each jsp :
> <%@(protected).
> But, now i'm looking for a way to change the default charset (Iso 8859-1)
> used by
> Tomcat for the jsp compilation. I want to set this information in only one
> place(why not in the web.xml),
> to avoid to add the directive tag on my each jsp file.
>
> Let me know if you have any ideas on the subject.
>
> Regards, jp
>
> PS :
> When Tomcat (jasper) compiles a jsp without any directive the result is
> in the java source setContentType("text/html; charset=iso8859-1");
> When Tomcat (jasper) compiles a jsp with the directive the result is
> in the java source setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
> What i want is to have the second result without tag my jsp file with the
> directive <%@(protected)"%>
>
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