IMHO the stack traces show explicitly enough that CDI ServletListener is invoked before any filter

Yes, the listener activates the conversation because this is the default behavior. If you configured your application properly the listener would not activate the conversation context. Instead, a filter would do that which would allow you to position your filter before the CDI filter and set the encoding properly.

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