Enconding problem: JSTL fmt

Question

I’m using fmt to internationalize the texts on a page. It turns out that when using accents, the text gets weird characters. I tried to change:

<fmt:requestEncoding value="UTF-8" />

but there was no difference. There is some extra configuration that should be made?

Edit:

Header on the page

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<%@taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<fmt:setLocale value="pt_BR"/>
<fmt:setBundle basename="messages" />

Utilizing:

<h5><fmt:message key="action"/></h5>

messages_pt_BR.properties file:

action = Ação

Answer 1

No use just changing the encoding on the tag fmt if the displayed information is saved using another encoding. Checks the encoding used in the database or language files you are using to load the information displayed on that screen. If you need to modify the encoding, you will need to modify it also in the data source to make it compatible with the tag fmt.