The problem was firstly the wrong URIEncoding of tomcat itself. The second problem came from the application's side: The params were wrongly encoded, so it was not possible to show the desired results.
If you need to convert from different encodings to utf8, I can give you the following piece of pseudocode: string = urlencode(encodeForUtf8(myString)); And if you need to decode for several reasons, keep in mind that you must change the order of decodings: value = decodeFromUtf8(urldecode(string)); Hope that helps. Thank you! -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Tomcat-special-character-problem-tp1857648p1868024.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.