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1. Character encoding problem with email format    stackoverflow.com

I have a simple jsp form that the customer uses to send us emails. Though on some occasions the emails come through incorrectly formatted with the text =?ISO-8859-1?Q? sporadically displayed throughout ...

2. Jsp form encoding    stackoverflow.com

I have a jsp page(let's say page1.jsp) which have an html form with action="page2.jsp". In page1.jsp and page2.jsp i have <%@page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> outside the head section and <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> ...

3. Form character encoding problems with special characters    stackoverflow.com

Hello I have a jsp with an html form. I set the content type like this: 

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" %>
When I send special characters like á é í ó ú ...

4. Can I send a POST form in an encoding other than of its body?    stackoverflow.com

I've Html page that looks like: 

<HTML>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=gb2312'>
<BODY onload='document.forms[0].submit();'>
<form name="form" method="post" action="/path/to/some/servlet">
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="??"> <!-- UTF-8 characters -->
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
As you can see, the content of this page is UTF-8, but ...

5. Does a servlet knows the encoding of the sent form that specified using http-equiv?    stackoverflow.com

Does a servlet knows the encoding of the sent form that specified using http-equiv? When I specify an encoding of a POSTed form using http-equiv like that: 

<HTML>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=gb2312'/>
</head>
<BODY >
<form name="form" ...

6. Encoding and decoding TextArea contents    coderanch.com

7. Using UTF-8 encoding for jsp textarea field instead HTML encoding    coderanch.com

8. UTF-8 encoding not honored when form has multipart/form-data    coderanch.com

I have a form in which user can upload a file and another field 'name' in which she can give any name to the file being loaded. (Please see the image in attachements) When I submit the form, the file is uploaded fine but the value in name field is messed up. I have followed all the possible suggestions I found: ...