I ecountered the same problem .
I add
<filter>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
to web.xml. works fine.
2007/9/18, Christian Koeberl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > After packaging new package, but occur NullPointer Exception:
> > because request.getCharacterEncoding() == null
>
> You also have to add the UTF-8 filter described in
> http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5Utf8Encoding
>
> --
> Chris