UTF-8 encoding trouble

Question

I need to use UTF8 encoding throughout a site. For that purpose, I have the following
tags on JSP:
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Next, in my weblogic.xml, I have the following:
<jsp-param>
     <param-name>encoding</param-name>
     <param-value>UTF8</param-value>
</jsp-param>
<charset-params>
<input-charset>
<resource-path>*.jsp</resource-path>
<java-charset-name>UTF8</java-charset-name>
</input-charset>
</charset-params>
Having configured this, I have two simple JSP files. The first one submits a field
(whose contents I enter in Greek), and the second page writes them to a file. The
code for writing to a file looks like this:
FileOutputStream of = new FileOutputStream (fileName, false);
OutputStreamWriter ow = new OutputStreamWriter (of, "UTF-8");
ow.write (request.getParameter("test"));
When I enter the Greek character Alpha as input, the file has a weird string +I in
it. To fix the problem, I did the following (and it works):
String s = request.getParameter ("TestName");
byte b[] = new byte [5000];
b = s.getBytes ();
s = new String (b, "UTF-8");
writeToFile (s);
Which means that for some reason, the page gets the right String, but it seems to
be encoded with default encoding (not UTF8). When I convert it into bytes, and create
another String using the same byte-stream but a different encoding, what I get is
correct UTF-8 encoded string. Please also note that the same problem occurs with
DB as well (Oracle 8.1.7 with UTF8 on Win2k), and fixing the above code fixes problem
at both file and database level.
Rather than the above workaround, what's the proper way to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Raja

Answer 1

In GlassFish i have changed this now below here. Under each listeners both for Network Listeners and Protocols there are an HTTP tab and under that one i have change this,
Network Config
Network Listeners
http-listeners-1
http-listeners-2
admin-listeners
Protocols
http-listeners-1
http-listeners-2
admin-listeners
URI Encoding: UTF-8
Default Response Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Forced Response Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
So when i run curl in a terminal window i get this response:
Macintosh:~ jespernyqvist$ curl -I http://neptunediving.com/neptune/index.jsp
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 04:14:17 GMT
Server: GlassFish v3
X-Powered-By: JSP/2.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Content-Language: en-US
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=478269c08e050484d1d6fa29fc44; Path=/neptune
As you can see now my HTTP Header is looking good, no more charset=iso-8859-1. The only problem i have here is that there is no space in between text/html;charset=UTF-8. I think this should be like this instead or not, text/html; charset=UTF-8? I have noticed that they are very case sensitive so maybe this is a problem for me?
On top of my header i have this;
<%@page import="com.neptunediving.*"%>
<%@include file="WEB-INF/include/LangSupport.jsp"%>
<%@page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
In my header i have this;
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
I have changed in the preferences for Eclipse to use UTF-8. I have gone thru all properties files in my project and changed them to UTF-8 also. So what else are they to change?
Still my page is nor displayed properly, now in all browsers like Safari, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. So what is wrong with my page since this don't work for me? Can anybody please explain this to me?