<filter>
  <filter-name>setCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>encoding</param-name>
    <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
  </init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>setCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<jsp-config>
  <jsp-property-group>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
    <page-encoding>UTF-8</page-encoding>
  </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>

<Resource name="jdbc/gtraxDS" auth="Container"
           type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
            url="jdbc:sqlserver://ctceu-wgc-dv026:45666; databaseName=gtraxd2"
       username="myAppUsername"
       password="myAppPa55word"/>

The default value of URIEncoding attribute for HTTP and AJP connectors has been changed from
"ISO-8859-1" to be "UTF-8" (if "strict servlet compliance" mode is off, which is the default)