page encoding, UTF-8 and multibyte characters

[Wendy Gibbons]

I have no idea where to put this question as it could be so many thing.
When my rest call gets logged in chrome developer tools it has the correct encoding "UTF-8".
By the time it lands in my setter function of the bean it has been decoded using 'iso-8859-1'
We use spring, maybe jaxb.

This is the little feller causing all the problems: '¬'

DataAccountSearch.setAccountId(String) line: 65	
NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Method, Object, Object[]) line: not available [native method]	
NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 39	
DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 25	
Method.invoke(Object, Object...) line: 597	
BeanWrapperImpl.setPropertyValue(BeanWrapperImpl$PropertyTokenHolder, PropertyValue) line: 1132	
BeanWrapperImpl.setPropertyValue(PropertyValue) line: 902	
BeanWrapperImpl(AbstractPropertyAccessor).setPropertyValues(PropertyValues, boolean, boolean) line: 75	
ExtendedServletRequestDataBinder(DataBinder).applyPropertyValues(MutablePropertyValues) line: 740	
ExtendedServletRequestDataBinder(DataBinder).doBind(MutablePropertyValues) line: 636	
ExtendedServletRequestDataBinder(WebDataBinder).doBind(MutablePropertyValues) line: 191	
ExtendedServletRequestDataBinder(ServletRequestDataBinder).bind(ServletRequest) line: 112	
ServletModelAttributeMethodProcessor.bindRequestParameters(WebDataBinder, NativeWebRequest) line: 153	
ServletModelAttributeMethodProcessor(ModelAttributeMethodProcessor).resolveArgument(MethodParameter, ModelAndViewContainer, NativeWebRequest, WebDataBinderFactory) line: 106	
HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite.resolveArgument(MethodParameter, ModelAndViewContainer, NativeWebRequest, WebDataBinderFactory) line: 77	
ServletInvocableHandlerMethod(InvocableHandlerMethod).getMethodArgumentValues(NativeWebRequest, ModelAndViewContainer, Object...) line: 162	
ServletInvocableHandlerMethod(InvocableHandlerMethod).invokeForRequest(NativeWebRequest, ModelAndViewContainer, Object...) line: 123	
ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletWebRequest, ModelAndViewContainer, Object...) line: 104	
RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandleMethod(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, HandlerMethod) line: 745	
RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, HandlerMethod) line: 686	
RequestMappingHandlerAdapter(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter).handle(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, Object) line: 80	
DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 925	
DispatcherServlet.doService(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 856	
DispatcherServlet(FrameworkServlet).processRequest(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 936
DispatcherServlet(FrameworkServlet).doGet(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 827	
DispatcherServlet(HttpServlet).service(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 627	
DispatcherServlet(FrameworkServlet).service(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse) line: 812	
DispatcherServlet(HttpServlet).service(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 729	
ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 269	
ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 188	<---- it has already been decoded in my eclipse debugger at this point
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 330	
FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterInvocation) line: 118	
FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 84	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 113	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 103	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 113	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 154	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
RequestCacheAwareFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 45	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
BasicAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 150	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter).doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 199	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
PortalAuthentictionFilter(AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter).doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 94	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
LogoutFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 110	
FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse) line: 342	
SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) line: 87	
	

[Wendy Gibbons]

I just solved this myself, by adding this to the server.xml in tomcat. I had already made sure all the existing encodings were correct at utf-8 in the web.xml

<Connector port="8090" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
 maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
 enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
 connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
 URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>