Unicode characters handling problem

Use the JSF Car Booking example from the portletbridge directory in the EPP bundle. Deploy it and start the server. Put the application on a page and access it. Choose Spanish as the language in the first step. Confirm all the steps until you get to the Customer Details form. Choose Senor in the select (default value). Fill in Primer Nombre , Código postal and Numero de carta de crédito with some strings to avoid validation errors. Submit the form. If everything worked, you would be directed to the next page. This doesn't happen now because of the value in the select containing a "special" character (note: the other fields are fine since you don't see any error messages in the form).

CAUSE HTTP Request parameters were retrieved before the character encoding was set to UTF-8 CONSEQUENCE The default character encoding of ISO-8859-1 was used instead, leading to mangled characters FIX Set the character encoding to UTF-8 before Request parameters are accessed RESULT Correct unicode characters are returned in form posts