Unicode character enconding - unicode

Question

I have a jsp page which takes up first name and last name in chinese language. I am using the struts framework.
I need to pass the first name and last name from the JSP to servlet in terms of unicode characters.
I am doing the following changes:
JSP Changes:
1) <%# page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
2) meta content="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" in the header,
The filter which is called before the action servlet, I have used the following code:
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.setContentType("UTF-8");
This did not work, the unicode characters which are passed are incorrect, or something not readable.
Considering the MVC framework already creates the request object by the time it reaches the filter,
I modified the JSP to include the following lines of code
<%# taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %>
< fmt:requestEncoding value="UTF-8" />
< fmt:setLocale value="zh_CN"/>
None of the above changes have worked. Please help me to get the correct unicode characters in the action class.
IS there any modification i need to make in the config files.

Answer 1

You also need to set the Bundle basename.
<fmt:setBundle basename = "[base_file_name_of_language_file]"/>
where [base_file_name_of_language_file] is equal to whatever name you set your language properties file name to be.
For example, the "MyLanguageFileName" in this file name :
MyLanguageFileName_zh_CN.properties