Grails: russian characters from form

Question

Russian characters are shown correctly on the page but incorrectly displayed on the server side if send them from form. For example word игра transforms into игÑа. I have following lines in Config.groovy:

grails.views.gsp.encoding = "UTF-8"
grails.converters.encoding = "UTF-8"

And following line in the main layout view:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

What should i do to fix it?

Answer 1

The data “игÑа” results from UTF-8 encoded “игра” when misinterpreted as ISO-8859-1. It sounds like the HTTP headers specify ISO-8859-1 (or some similar 8-bit encoding); this overrides any meta tags.