Problems with special characters in an ActionForm

Hi, I have a simple action form where users can enter texts, including special characters such as German umlauts. If a user enters "müller" in the text field, I only get "müller" from the actionform. I assume that there is a problem with the encoding, but I don't know how I can resolve it. The a

Re: Problems with special characters in an ActionForm

It is not problem of Struts or form properties but the encoding of the parameters. You may check what is the encoding used to get params from request: request.getCharacterEncoding() and chect if it matches your needs and/or the way that characters are coded by the browser. If you want to have

Re: Problems with special characters in an ActionForm

Dariusz, Thanks for your help - this works. The filter approach is very convenient (you don't even need to cast the request to a HttpServletRequest) and now all special characters are submitted correctly! Cheers, Thorsten - To