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    • UTF-8 has become dominant character encoding for the web applications.

    In this article, I will talk about how to configure UTF-8 in IBM WAS, Oracle Weblogic, Tomcat, TC Server & JBoss.

    WebSphere Application Server

    • Login into WebSphere Administrative Console
    • Expand Servers >> Application Servers
    • Click on Application Server (JVM) you want to enable UTF-8
    • Expand Java and Process Management under Server Infrastructure
    • Click on Process Definition
    • Click on Java Virtual Machine
    • Add the following parameter in Generic Java Arguments
    -Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8
    • Click Ok, Sync the node if applicable
    • Restart Application Server (JVM) for changes to take effect.

    Oracle WebLogic Server

    • Go to Weblogic Domain path
    • Go to bin folder
    • Add following parameter in setDomainEnv.sh under JAVA_OPTS variable.
    -Dfile.encoding=utf8
    • Restart Weblogic server for changes to take effect.

    Tomcat

    • Go to tomcat home (installation) folder
    • Go to conf folder
    • Add the following parameter in server.xml under Connector port.
    URIEncoding="UTF-8"

    Note: if you have multiple Connector ports, you must add them under all.

    • Go to tomcat home (installation folder)
    • Go to bin folder
    • Add the following parameter in catalina.sh under JAVA_OPTS variable.
    -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

    Ex:

    JAVA_OPTS=”-Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8”
    • Restart Tomcat Server for changes to take effect.

    TC Server

    • Go to TC Server instance folder
    • Go to conf folder
    • Add the following parameter in server.xml under Connector port.
    URIEncoding="UTF-8"
    • Go to TC Server instance folder
    • Go to bin folder
    • Add following in setenv.sh under CATALINA_OPTS variable
    -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

    Ex:

    CATALINA_OPTS="-Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
    • Restart TC Server for changes to take effect.

    JBoss Application Server

    • Go to JBoss installation path
    • Go to bin folder
    • Add the following parameter in standalone.conf under JAVA_OPTS
    -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
    • Restart JBoss Server for changes to take effect.

    UTF-8 Validation Tools

    You can use following online tool to validate if your web application is UTF-8 supported

    http://coderstoolbox.net/string/

    http://validator.w3.org/

    I hope above instructions help you in configuring UTF-8 in multiple application servers.

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