From: Philippe Marschall <kustos_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:18:51 +0200

Hi

UTF-8 is the most popular encoding on the web [1], [2], [3]. However
configuring a Java EE web application to use UTF-8 has historically not
been easy or doable in a portable manner [4]. Are there any plans to
change this, for example by adding a <encoding> element to web.xml?

  [1] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding/all
  [2] http://googleblog.blogspot.ch/2010/01/unicode-nearing-50-of-web.html
  [3] http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/utf8-web-growth#c139948
  [4] http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding

Cheers
Philippe