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I use Apache httpd + mod_jk with tomcat and connect to port 8009. Be sure to tell the tomcat connection that you are using UTF-8.

# vi /usr/local/tomcat/conf/server.xml

<Connector
port=”8009″
URIEncoding=”UTF-8″
enableLookups=”false”
redirectPort=”8443″
protocol=”AJP/1.3″ />

Add two parameters to the list of JAVA_OPTS (at least for tomcat)

-Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8″

Character codes and encoding
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