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+# LibreEnCadeau
+
+Welcome! 
+
+
+## Developing environment
+
+LibreEnCadeau project uses strictly Eclipse, Java, GIT, Tomcat 7.
+
+### UTF-8 compliance settings
+Set UTF-8 compliance when using Tomcat server directly:
+- edit workspace/Servers/Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-config/server.xml
+- add « URIEncoding="UTF-8" » to the 8080 connetor:
+  <Connector connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
+
+Set UTF-8 compliance when using Tomcat server through Apache server (so using mod_jk):
+- edit server.xml (on Debian, /etc/tomcat7/server.xml)
+- add « URIEncoding="UTF-8" » to the AJP connetor:
+  <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
+
+### Eclipse Mars tips
+To get Tomcat server with Eclipse Mars, install all JST packages.
+
+## Build
+
+# Authors
+
+
+# License
+
+LibreEnCadeau is released under the GNU AGPL license. 
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