Setting character set for tomcat requests and responses

To set character set for your tomcat requests and responses, add param URIEncoding="UTF-8" (if you need your character set to be UTF-8) in the Connector tag of server.xml.

To start firebird in windows

Run command fbserver.exe -a from the firebird/bin directory (Note: firebird dir is the firebird installation dir - the name could differ with the version)