This section describes the functionality for setting up the default character encoding.

With Application Server, you can set up the character encoding that is compliant with the Servlet specifications and is unique to Application Server.

The following table describes the organization of this section.

Table 2-17 Organization of this section (Functionality for setting the default character encoding)

Category	Title	Reference
Description	Units for setting the default character encoding	2.6.1
	Applicable locations and conditions for default character encoding	2.6.2
	Application of character encoding during JSP pre-compilation	2.6.3
	Specifiable character encoding	2.6.4
Implementation	Implementation of default character encoding (for Servlet specifications)	2.6.5
	Definition in the DD	2.6.6
Settings	Execution environment settings	2.6.7
Notes	Precautions related to default character encoding	2.6.8

Note:

There is no specific explanation of Operations for this functionality.

When specifying settings for character encoding used for request decoding and response encoding compliant with the Servlet specifications, you describe the settings for each servlet and JSP file. With Application Server, you can specify default character encoding using the following methods apart from the settings compliant with the Servlet specifications:

• Setting up character encoding to be used in J2EE servers
• Setting up character encoding to be used in Web applications

This enables you to omit the character encoding settings described in the servlet and JSP file during the development of Web applications. Also, you can easily unify the character encoding for the J2EE servers or Web applications.

The following figure shows the character encoding settings that you can omit in the Servlet specifications:

Figure 2-9 Character encoding settings that can be omitted in the Servlet specifications

The following subsection describes the default character encoding settings.

Organization of this section

2.6.1 Units for setting the default character encoding

2.6.2 Applicable locations and conditions for default character encoding

2.6.3 Application of character encoding during JSP pre-compilation

2.6.4 Specifiable character encoding

2.6.5 Implementation of default character encoding (For Servlet specifications)

2.6.6 Definition in the DD

2.6.7 Execution environment settings

2.6.8 Precautions related to default character encoding