# HG changeset patch
# User Mike Becker <universe@uap-core.de>
# Date 1606299182 -3600
# Node ID e2d09cf3fb96a3113484e796aace1c2e1befa0ae
# Parent  86b5d8a1662f7f2199f0d7cb03c2d1f8c22d4b0f
forces the use of utf-8 as request character encoding - fixes #108

diff -r 86b5d8a1662f -r e2d09cf3fb96 src/main/java/de/uapcore/lightpit/AbstractLightPITServlet.java
--- a/src/main/java/de/uapcore/lightpit/AbstractLightPITServlet.java	Thu Nov 19 13:58:54 2020 +0100
+++ b/src/main/java/de/uapcore/lightpit/AbstractLightPITServlet.java	Wed Nov 25 11:13:02 2020 +0100
@@ -405,6 +405,8 @@
     }
 
     private void doProcess(HttpMethod method, HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        // the very first thing to do is to force UTF-8
+        req.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
 
         // choose the requested language as session language (if available) or fall back to english, otherwise
         HttpSession session = req.getSession();