Specifying UTF-8 encoding on cookie strings
About this task
Use UTF-8 when user names or credential attributes in the cookie are not encoded in the same code page as the one that the WebSEAL server is using. By default, WebSEAL servers use UTF-8 encoding. When all WebSEAL servers in the WebSEAL deployment use UTF-8 encoding, leave this value at the default setting of "yes".
Procedure
Edit the WebSEAL configuration file. Specify
whether or
not WebSEAL should use UTF-8 encoding on strings within the failover
cookies.
[failover]
use-utf8 = yes The default value is "yes".