Hello all, Can someone tell me if there is a way to set up Tomcat to handle multibyte character parameters, such as specifing the encoding and having tomcat encode the input parameter on the fly. As of now, I'm passing in my multibyte request to a BufferedReader along with the character encoding of the string and then re-reading the string from the buffer, such as: String para = request.getParameter('text'); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( new StringBufferInputStream(text), Shift_JIS)); text = reader.readLine(); Any ideas?? Steve