it seems like every servlet container has some way of configuring the default, so we should just rely on that and not add our own default
I agree, except that in the world of first time (and even seasoned) web-app/system developers/maintainers, we don't always set things up properly! or even know how to set things up properly! If we can do something small that makes the most normal cases work even if the container is not configured, that seems good. At the very lease, we should change the examples in: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrResin etc to use: <web-app id="/solr" character-encoding="utf-8"> <env-entry> ... ryan
