How can I read a utf-8 value in my servlet

Question

In my servlet I save to a String variable, a value which I get form a form (with POST) in my JSP page.This value sometimes isn't in English..

s1 = request.getParameter("Country");

Then to test, what I just read I print it to the log screen and I got $%^& when it isn't in English. I tried to add

<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" language="java" %>

in my jsp page and I also checked if there is this in the server.xml

URIEncoding="utf-8"

But It did't change anything.. What can i do?
EDIT
I added to my servlet the following

if (request.getCharacterEncoding() == null) {
            request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        }

inside the protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

but i still have the problem

see this excellend post by @balusc http://balusc.blogspot.jp/2009/05/unicode-how-to-get-characters-right.html — Scary Wombat, Jul 16 '15 at 08:09
@BalusC I read your answer but nothing happened.... (I update the question of what i did) — yaylitzis, Jul 16 '15 at 17:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '15 at 09:39

If you're using tomcat, you can try their utf8 encoding filter (add it to your web.xml of course). Their filter is called org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter, or if you don't want to depend on 3rd party then you can peek at their source code and write your own, it's not very complicated.

See also http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding

How can I read a utf-8 value in my servlet

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