[Kopilman]

ovigo22, no, it'll transcribe it to the encoding specified.

[PaulKolin]

ovigo22, getBytes(String encoding)

[ovigo22]

Kopilman, you're certain of that?

[Kopilman]

ovigo22, Yes. I am.

[jomanda]

ovigo22, .getBytes() without parameters switches to the system defaults

[ovigo22]

Ok
System default
But not the one used when creating the string

[jomanda]

In my case it seems to

[Kopilman]

Nope.
Well, it could be, it's just not guarenteed to be.

[ovigo22]

Right, which means it's not
It has no relevance, but could coincidentally be the same (obviously)
jomanda, you should look at the tomcat source code to see how it's encoding the strings
Maybe it's doing it incorrectly
Or differently than seems appropriate or correct

[jomanda]

I think, that the chances are that i am doing something wrong
Btw. i am not able to enforce browser to specify iso-8859-2 on post