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but does not render in the jsp/browser?

You need to set the response encoding as well. In a JSP you can do this using

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

This has actually the same effect as setting the following meta tag in HTML <head>:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

BalusC 2009-11-16 23:17:36

When I try to print the contents of the java string variable on the console by using System.out.println(...), I see "?" instead of right arrow so my guess is that JSP gets question marks that is why it displays question marks in the browser. And I think that the problem is within my java code and maybe I have to specify encoding of the String content in some other way.

m_a_khan 2009-11-16 23:21:53

Then the console should also be configured to use UTF-8. You can find more background information and detailed solutions here: http://balusc.blogspot.com/2009/05/unicode-how-to-get-characters-right.html Hope this helps.

BalusC 2009-11-16 23:27:21

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Possibilities:

The browser does not support UTF-8
You don't have Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 in your HTTP Headers.

Dylan Lacey 2009-11-16 23:23:07

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The lazy developer (=me) uses Apache Common Lang StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html#escapeHtml%28java.lang.String) which will help you handle all 'odd' characters. Let the browser do the final translation of the html entities.

Kennet 2009-11-17 08:30:28

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