if your tomcat is a NT Service, this needs to go in the registry HKLM/System/ControlSet001/Services/Apache Tomcat xxx/Parameters/JVM Option Number n
also updating the JVM Option Count you should see the other parameters there, just follow these as an example when adding your new one Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allistair Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:56 AM Subject: RE: DefaultServlet character encoding or specify -Dfile.encoding=UTF or whatever in your tomcat startup -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 April 2004 16:55 To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: DefaultServlet character encoding Hi, Tomcat ignores META tags (for good reasons I won't go in to). Use <%@ page pagEncoding="..." %>. Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Hassan Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DefaultServlet character encoding > > Config: Tomcat 4.1.29 -- Sun Java 1.4.2_01-b06 -- RedHat ES > > Problem: static HTML pages meta-tagged to use Shift_JIS are sent as > ISO-8859-1. > > All the googling I've done turns up the suggestion to start Tomcat > with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 in either JAVA_OPTS or CATALINA_OPTS to > make UTF-8 the default. I've tried both, neither made a difference. > > To baffle me more, my two (unfortunately) divergent dev environments > Tomcat 4.1.27 -- Sun Java 1.4.2_01-b06 -- W2k > Tomcat 5.0.19 -- Sun Java 1.4.1_01-69.1 -- OSX.2.8 > serve a sample Shift_JIS page just fine "out of the box"... > > All suggestions gratefully accepted :-) > > -- > Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com > > dream. code. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLUE> ------------------------------------------------------- QAS Ltd. Developers of QuickAddress Software <a href="http://www.qas.com">www.qas.com</a> Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 ------------------------------------------------------- </FONT> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]