Configure application servers for UTF-8 encoding
Overview
To use multiple language encoding support in the administrative console,
configure an application server with UTF-8 encoding enabled.
Procedure
- Create an application
server or use an existing application server.
- On the Application
Server page, click on the name of the server you want enabled for
UTF-8.
- On the settings
page for the selected application server, under Server Infrastructure,
click Java and Process Management > Process Definition.
- On the Process
Definition page, click Java Virtual Machine.
- On the Java
Virtual Machine page, specify -Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8 for
Generic JVM Arguments and click OK.
- Click Save on the console task bar.
- Restart the application
server.
Result
Note that the autoRequestEncoding option does not work with UTF-8
encoding enabled. The default behavior for WAS is,
first, to check if charset is set on content type header. If it is, then
the product uses content type header for character encoding; if it is not,
then the product uses character encoding set on server using the system property
default.client.encoding. If charset is not present and the system property
is not set, then the product uses ISO-8859-1. Enabling autoRequestEncoding
on a Web module changes the default behavior: if charset it not present on
an incoming request header, the product checks the Accept-Language header
of the incoming request and does encoding using the first language found
in that header. If there is no charset on content type header and no Accept
language header, then the product uses character encoding set on server using
the system property default.client.encoding. As with the default behavior,
if charset is not present and the system property is not set, then the product
uses ISO-8859-1.
Related Tasks
Creating application servers
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