Content-type problems while using struts+tomcat+apache+mod_jk

Question

Hi!
Could anyone tell me how to solve the following problem.
Struts-application works under apache + mod_jk + tomcat 3.3.1. Operating system is Linux.
It's impossible to me to make tomcat to send HTTP-answers in UTF-8.
I was trying the following:
1. Set <DecodeInterceptor defaultEncoding="UTF-8" /> in server.xml
(Has no effect. Tomcat responds with Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1)
2. Insert <%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8"%> into each page header.
(Works fine but when struts-application gets GET/POST-data the two-bytes national characters
are comverted into "?"-symbols)
Is there any way to make tomcat 3.3.1 to send HTTP-answers in UTF-8?

Answer 1

I don't know what the DecodeInterceptor does... but....
If you use number 2, you are only telling the browser what that page's output is. When you process the data, Tomcat for some reason always reads it as ISO8895-1, so you need to tell Tomcat to change it to UTF-8. You can do that by calling request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"), either in the JSP page, or if you need it in a servlet, you can do that in a filter...
It's somewhat described here how to set it up...
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01193.html