{"id":12554,"date":"2024-03-14T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-solve-the-problem-of-garbled-text-in-tomcat\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:10:46","slug":"how-to-solve-the-problem-of-garbled-text-in-tomcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-solve-the-problem-of-garbled-text-in-tomcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Tomcat Garbled Text: UTF-8 Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several ways to solve the encoding problem in Tomcat:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Set the URIEncoding attribute to UTF-8 in the Connector tag in the server.xml configuration file of Tomcat.<\/li>\n
  2. Use UTF-8 encoding for the URI in the Connector configuration.<\/li>\n
  3. Set character encoding filters for requests and responses in the web.xml configuration file of Tomcat.<\/li>\n
  4. Set up a filter called encodingFilter that uses the class org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter, with the encoding parameter set to UTF-8 and the ignore parameter set to true. The filter is mapped to all URL patterns.<\/li>\n
  5. Add the following code to the head section of the JSP page to set the character encoding of the page to UTF-8.<\/li>\n
  6. <%@ page language=\"java\" contentType=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" pageEncoding=\"UTF-8\"%>\n

    Rewrite it in English as follows:<\/p>\n

    <%@ page language=\"java\" contentType=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" pageEncoding=\"UTF-8\"%><\/li>\n

  7. In Java code, use UTF-8 encoding to read and write data. For example, set the character encoding for requests and responses to UTF-8.<\/li>\n
  8. Set the character encoding for the request and response to “UTF-8”.<\/li>\n
  9. When using a database, make sure that the character encoding of the database is also set to UTF-8. You can specify the character encoding when connecting to the database.<\/li>\n
  10. The database connection string for my database on localhost is jdbc:mysql:\/\/localhost:3306\/mydb?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here are some common solutions to fix Tomcat encoding issues, choose the best method that fits your specific situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are several ways to solve the encoding problem in Tomcat: Set the URIEncoding attribute to UTF-8 in the Connector tag in the server.xml configuration file of Tomcat. Use UTF-8 encoding for the URI in the Connector configuration. Set character encoding filters for requests and responses in the web.xml configuration file of Tomcat. 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