Java EE在Servlet中调用forward致使JSP页面中文乱码

在JSP页面中使用 跳转到相应的页面，中文正常显示，但是在Servlet中使用forward跳转到同样的页面，中文却会乱码。尝试了在Servlet中使用setCharacterEncoding，但同样还是乱码，并不能解决问题，后来加了一个过滤器，问题才解决，以下是过滤器代码：

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebFilter;

/**
 * Servlet Filter implementation class EncodingFilter
 */
@WebFilter(filterName="encodingFilter",urlPatterns={"/*"})
public class EncodingFilter implements Filter {

    /**
     * Default constructor. 
     */
    public EncodingFilter() {
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    /**
     * @see Filter#destroy()
     */
    public void destroy() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    private String str="UTF-8";
    /**
     * @see Filter#doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain)
     */
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        // place your code here
        //在这里加入下面两行代码
        request.setCharacterEncoding(str);
        response.setCharacterEncoding(str);
        // pass the request along the filter chain
        chain.doFilter(request, response);

    }

    /**
     * @see Filter#init(FilterConfig)
     */
    public void init(FilterConfig fConfig) throws ServletException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

}