Answers to: How to use UTF-8 encoding for Html Pageshttps://answers.axonivy.com/questions/201/how-to-use-utf-8-encoding-for-html-pages<p>What steps are necessary to use UTF-8 character encoding (charset) for the Html Pages (JSP)? This is useful to support more special characters and be more compatible with the Html Dialog (JSF) which is per default UTF-8 encoded.</p>enFri, 13 Dec 2013 09:57:14 -0500Answer by Christian Strebelhttps://answers.axonivy.com/questions/201/how-to-use-utf-8-encoding-for-html-pages/202<p><strong>This answer is only working with Xpert.ivy 5.0 and higher.</strong></p> <p>Add the following code (filter which sets the caracter endocing to UTF-8) to your web.xml under webapps/ivy/WEB-INF (Designer and Server):</p> <pre><code>&lt;filter&gt; &lt;filter-name&gt;setCharacterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt; &lt;filter-class&gt;org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-class&gt; &lt;init-param&gt; &lt;param-name&gt;encoding&lt;/param-name&gt; &lt;param-value&gt;UTF-8&lt;/param-value&gt; &lt;/init-param&gt; &lt;async-supported&gt;true&lt;/async-supported&gt; &lt;/filter&gt; &lt;filter-mapping&gt; &lt;filter-name&gt;setCharacterEncodingFilter&lt;/filter-name&gt; &lt;url-pattern&gt;/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt; &lt;/filter-mapping&gt; </code></pre> <p>Add to all your jsp layouts/templates (under /Layouts/ in the cms) or to jsp pages in the webcontent the following code to the first line:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%@page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %&gt; </code></pre> <p>Also change the meta-inf html header to the right encoding:</p> <pre><code>&lt;head&gt; ... &lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt; ... &lt;/head&gt; </code></pre> <p><img alt="layout adjusted to UTF8" src="http://answers.axonivy.com/upfiles/utf8Layout.PNG"></p> <p><strong>Warning: There is an issue #24706 with file upload (multipart form-data). This does only work for special characters (e.g. umlauts) from Xpert.ivy version 5.0.8 and higher</strong></p>Christian StrebelFri, 13 Dec 2013 09:57:14 -0500https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/201/how-to-use-utf-8-encoding-for-html-pages/202