Creating a basic webapp that will handle UTF-8 characters from form input and also have internationalized messages.
The character encoding type for the request can be set using the CharacterEncodingFilter. By setting this, when a form values are retrieved from the request the encoding type will be UTF-8.
<filter>
<filter-name>encoding-filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>encoding-filter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>