issue tomcat and special characters

[ary martini]

Hi Team
 
I am using tomcat 4.1.29 with mysql 4.0
 
My application runs on tomcat. There is a file "includes.inc.jsp" on my 
application which specifies the character setting to ISO-8859-1.
 
Issue:
I cannot insert special characters into my database. 
Example: à , è or ü and ö are inserted as orphan characters like è and ? or à 
 
Test: 
I have changed the charset to UTF-8, it has no effect. For some reason tomcat 
deafults the encoding.
 
Question
How can I check and change the encoding on tomcat?
 
Here an extract from my charset :
 
<%@ page language="java" errorPage="/error.jsp" contentType="text/html; 
charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/css/formate.css">
<%@ include file="session.inc.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="i18n.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="declarations.inc.jsp" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="h2h" uri="/WEB-INF/tld/h2h.tld" %>
 
Thank you very much
Ary


                
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