Shibboleth SP attributes character encoding

[Peter Schober]

* Robert Führicht <Robert.Fuehricht at jku.at> [2015-08-31 09:16]:
> According to the SP's docs, the passed attributes are supposed to be
> treated as Unicode. Tomcat does treat them as ISO-8859-1, and, apart
> from recompiling it, there seems no way to change that.

Does this help?
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding

-peter