title: Sending special/region specific characters during form submit
body: <p>I have a form, which will be submitted to Struts Action and will get processed and returns output.</p>
  
  <p>However the input data has special characters like "Louvière", if users submits the form, In the back end, Struts fetching this value as "La Louvi�re".</p>
  
  <p>How do i handle this situation as the input should accept specially Euro characters.</p>
  
  <p>in the jsp page header I am encoding as </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and form defined like</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;s:form id="myform" action="myAction" method="POST"&gt;
  </code></pre>