Servlet Request

When processing the servlet request, the server uses the following order of precedence, first to last, to determine the character encoding for the request parameters:

• The ServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding() method.

• A hidden field in the form, if specified using the form-hint-field attribute of the parameter-encoding element in the sun-web.xml file. For more information about this element, see parameter-encoding

• The character encoding specified in the default-charset attribute of the parameter-encoding element in the sun-web.xml file. For more information about this element, see parameter-encoding

• The default encoding, which is ISO-8859-1.