Default request encoding in tomcat 4.0.6 (urgent)

Question

Hi all,
I developed a web application which supports japanese characters. The configuration is apache, tomcat 3.3.1, mysql.In this configuration the application works fine.
I tranferred the application to tomcat 4.0.6, now the japanese characters are displayed as ????. But the characters retrieved from the db are displaying correctly, the characters which are read from the text field are displaying like ??? (I set all the charset properly, this same code working correctly in the above configuration).
I think in tomcat 3.3.1 server.xml file has <DecodeInterceptor /> tag to decode all the request in the given encoding, I used <DecodeInterceptor defaultEncoding="Shift_JIS" /> in tomcat 3.3.1, like this is any tags availabe to configure tomcat 4.0.6 or any otherway to decode the request. Please give me your suggestions, its very urgent because I am in the deadline of this project.
Thanx in advance
Regards,
Pandiaraj

Answer 1

You could try running the server from a Japanese or UTF-8 locale (depending on what encoding you are expecting from the client). This should change the default behaviour (when the browser doesn't explicitly say what encoding it is using).
But if the charset was set properly when the form was served, then the browsers should be sending back the same charset with its Content-type header, so Tomcat 4 should automatically use the right encoding IIRC.