unicode characters are not displayed when requestdispatcher.forward is used to redirect to a page

Question

I my creating an application which supports English and Japanese languages. I'm using resource bundle and property files.

Problem is occuring when I use request dispacther to forward the request to another JSP file:

  RequestDispatcher rd1 = request.getRequestDispatcher("jsp/Update.jsp");
  rd1.forward(request, response);

The japanese characters are displayed as

????

But, when I directly open Update.jsp by providing complete path, the japanese characters are displayed as expected.

Answer 1

Remember that a JSP page is a HTML page with Java content inside of it.

Have you included the japanese character set in the JSP?

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" contentType="text/html; charset=EUC-JP" >
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=EUC-JP" %>

If this doesn't work, try doing this:

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

before you forward the request