Change Tomcat's Charset.defaultCharset in windows

Question

I\'m using tomcat 6.0.32 in windows 7. Inside a very simple servlet, inside the init method, I\'m printing:

System.out.println(Charset.defaultCharset());


        

Answer 1

Try setting the (Windows) environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS to -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 and start the Tomcat Server.

Will get more idea from this link: Setting the default Java character encoding

Answer 2

You may also add this setting in the Tomcat 7.0 windows service manager.

from Dr James Bayley's blog

Answer 3

Just create a setenv.bat file inside the TOMCAT/bin directory with the following contents:

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dfile.encoding=UTF8"

Answer 4

For Tomcat running as a Windows service neither %JAVA_OPTS% and neither setenv.bat answers works in my case.

I set the option "-Dfile.encoding=UTF8" in registry:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apache Software Foundation\Procrun 2.0\tomcatstackTomcat\Parameters\Java --> Options*

Then it works.