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I'm building Portlets using Spring Portlet MVC 3.02 and deploying them on WebSphere Portal V7. I have a form submission where one combo box requires to sent an Spanish character. Something like this:

<form:select id="${ns}imTheField" path="imTheField" cssStyle="width:120px;">
    <option value="AtTheEndTheresASpanishCharacterÑ">
        AtTheEndTheresASpanishCharacterÑ
    </option>                                                   
</form:select>

The "Ñ" character looks nice in the Screen. That combo value maps to the command attribute imTheField by Spring Binding process. After form submission and in the handler method, this is what I get when I log that command attribute:

theCommand.getImTheField: AtTheEndTheresASpanishCharacterÃ

Which is not the character that came from the form. This is getting me trouble as when there are errors in form submission I have to show the form again with the previous values, which now I don't have because of that issue.

Any ideas? This is what I get from Chrome debugging at form submission:

Request Headers
Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:es

Form Data
imTheField:AtTheEndTheresASpanishCharacterÑ

Response Headers
Content-Language:es
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8

Note that the field imTheField looks nicely formatted. Maybe is an issue with the Accept-Charset request header?

Carlos Gavidia-Calderon
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see: http://floatingcube.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/special-characters-in-spring-mvc.html

You may need to use a filter as spring is using ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8

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  • It's a Portlet application, I don't think Servlet filters apply – Carlos Gavidia-Calderon Jun 04 '13 at 12:47
  • A portlet application is just a variation on a dynamic web application. You can still use filters. For example authentication filters are often used in Websphere Portal for attaching to login and logout events – zargarf Jun 04 '13 at 12:52
  • ur jsp contains smth like <%@page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>? if this not helps try implement Action Filter same way as encoding filter above, sources is available on springsource or github – Georgy Gobozov Jun 14 '13 at 09:08