I got messages from Japanese community members that the tutorial
below is not working when user is using Japanese at the last step,
step 8, entering Japanese into Name: text field. The entered strings
are garbled.

  http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/web/quickstart-webapps-spring.html
   (Japanese - http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/web/quickstart-webapps-spring_ja.html)

To make this tutorial work in any environment including English,
I think we need to add org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
and specify the encoding e.g. UTF-8 like following,

<filter>
  <filter-name>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter </filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter </filter-class>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>encoding</param-name>
    <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
   </init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter </filter-name>
  <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
  <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

These settings can be configured on GUI.

Is it possible to add these additional steps to the tutorial?
Also it's nice if some descriptions could be added in OLH too.