GRAILS does not have the correct encoding Unicode character

- Set grails.views.gsp.encoding and grails.converters.encoding="UTF-8" in Config.groovy
- Set encoding to UTF-8 in meta tag in the .gsp pages
- Specified'useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8' to the MySql connection URL (DB has characterset set to UTF- 8)
- Set URIEncoding="UTF-8" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" to the server.xml file in tomcat
- Specified the attribute accept-charset="UTF-8" of the form tag. 

params.detail = params.detail? New String(params.detail .getBytes("8859_1"), "UTF8"): null

environments {
 development {
 dataSource {
 ......
 driverClassName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver "
 dialect = "com.domain.mysql.dialect.MySQLUTF8InnoDBDialect"
 .....

package com.domain.mysql.dialect;

import org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect;
< br />/**
 * Sets the default charset to UTF-8.
 */
public class MySQLUTF8InnoDBDialect extends MySQLInnoDBDialect {

 @Override
 public String getTa bleTypeString() {
 return "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8";
 }
}

grails.views.default.codec = "html"
grails.views.gsp.encoding = "UTF-8"
grails.converters.encoding = "UTF-8 "

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>

In my grails application, unicode characters are not correctly encoded .

I use grails 1.3.7 and tomcat 7.0.22. The following are the settings I configured for unicode support in my application:

- Set grails.views.gsp.encoding and grails.converters.encoding="UTF-8" in Config.groovy
- Set encoding to UTF-8 in meta tag in the .gsp pages
- Specified'useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8' to the MySql connection URL (DB has characterset set to UTF-8)
- Set URIEncoding="UTF-8" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" to the server. xml file in tomcat
- Specified the attribute accept-charset="UTF-8" of the form tag.

However, when I submit a unicode character, gr ails does not support the character and is saving garbled values. I have googled and read ppl asking for help on the same issue but unfortunately these solutions are not suitable for me. Although, I found a solution to this problem Method. The following expression

params.detail = params.detail? New String(params.detail.getBytes("8859_1"), "UTF8"): null

Unicode characters will be correctly encoded.

However, using this method is tedious because I have to do this for all text input in my application. Why are unicode characters not being grailed and / Or tomcat is correctly coded? I think my settings are correct.

If you are not using Mysql, but the HSqlDB provided by default, you will not see
your coding problems .There are problems due to Mysql, InnoDB and UTF-8.

Because you are using Mysql Connection and have been set up
useUnicode = true& characterEncoding = UTF-8 to MySql connection URL

You still need to add a special hibernate dialect for InnoDB and UTF-8:

Datasource.groovy should contain:

 environments {
 development {
 dataSource {
 ......
 driverClassName = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
 dialect = "com.domain. mysql.dialect.MySQLUTF8InnoDBDialect"
 .....

Create a new file in src/java/com/domain/mysql/dialect/MySQLUTF8InnoDBDialect.java

package com.domain.mysql.dialect;

import org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect;

/**
 * Sets the default charset to UTF-8.
 */
public class MySQLUTF8InnoDBDialect extends MySQLInnoDBDialect {

 @Override
 public String getTableTypeString() {
 return " ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAUL T CHARSET=utf8";
 }
}

Make sure your Config.groovy has:

grails.views.default .codec = "html"
grails.views.gsp.encoding = "UTF-8"
grails.converters.encoding = "UTF-8"

Your views / layouts / main.gsp starts with:

<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>

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