title: What happens to the jsp page not supporting utf8 characters for html text field
body: <p>I am using the following code to support UTF-8 in jsp. Please look at this :</p>
  
  <p>JSP Code :
  <strong>editDistList.jsp</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when response is sent over the server with the post parameter (see the screenshots below), the value is not save in UTF-8 for that particular text and it displays other characters. I am using <strong><em>αβγδεζηθ</em></strong> characters (taken help from <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_script_charset" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_script_charset</a> ) but it displays Î±Î²Î³Î´ÎµÎ¶Î·Î¸in "ISO-8859-1".</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFdSX.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iIApg.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I don't know why i am getting the garbage characters. I need to get UTF-8 characters which i have entered in text field somewhere. The static text displayed on same jsp page are displayed well. I used native2ascii to convert those characters to unicode-escape characters. But the problem is with dynamic text.</p>
  
  <p>Please help..</p>