Why doesn't Spring Boot force UTF-8 for parameters in a POST request?

[izeye]

As far as I know, Spring Boot uses UTF-8 in most cases.

Why doesn't Spring Boot use UTF-8 for parameters in a POST request by default?

Is there any reason not including the following filter?

    @Bean
    public Filter characterEncodingFilter() {
        CharacterEncodingFilter characterEncodingFilter = new CharacterEncodingFilter();
        characterEncodingFilter.setEncoding("UTF-8");
        characterEncodingFilter.setForceEncoding(true);
        return characterEncodingFilter;
    }

[snicoll]

This is already under discussion in #1182. Thanks!

[snicoll]

btw, @izeye this does more than that. This forces the encoding to be UTF-8, regardless of the encoding (i.e. even if you have set an encoding in the request yourself). I think we should openly discuss if we want to make such arrangement an automatic default in Boot. Maybe we should trigger that via a property?

[izeye]

Ok, got it. Thanks for the quick response :-)