J2EE not ready for the enterprise
Well, not really. But it's surprising how just about anything I've ever used gets i18n and especially Unicode support wrong, in some way or another.
After a lot of searching I just found out that you have to put "<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>" on every single JSP page to get the correct encoding, putting it in one include doesn't work. How annoying. Thanks go to Cagan.
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Alexander Klimetschek, 2007-12-17
I remember getting a working UTF-8 encoding with Cocoon and Dojo - argh!
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1366_1_1.html