Hello
> I am using Tomcat 5.0 and I am trying to receive and > send thai characters. Can someone please tell me the > simplest ways to do this. This worked for me with Japanese characters: Use a filter to set encodings for both requests and responses: request.setCharacterEncoding( "UTF-8" ); response.setContentType( "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ); Specify the following HTML header meta-tag in your JSPs: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Always specify "UTF-8" as the charset. Stick to submitting form-data with POST methods. I have not tried encoding URI's with GET requests. If you must use URI's with GET requests, try to limit yourself to working with ID-string parameters, so that you can avoid encoding issues. NOTE: Calling the 'ServletResponse.setContentType()' method (as above) is equivalent to calling the following two ServletResponse methods together: response.setContentType( "text/html" ); response.setCharacterEncoding( "UTF-8" ); Browsers should (and mostly do, I think) respect the encoding you specify when setting the response content-type (and the meta-tag content-type) so you can simply assume (in your filter) that your form-data will be in UTF-8. Clients still need to, of course, set their browsers to display the relevant charsets correctly. HTH. Harry Mantheakis London, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]