Hello, HTML 4.0 allows to display unicode characters by using Decimal (𞉀) or Hexadecimal (þ) Character References. Now, if a bean property contains some String with character references (e. g. new String("エラー");) then I expect a correct output when displaying that bean-properties with a JSP-page. But what happens? - The output to the browser is not "エラー" (which would be displayed correct), but エラー which is displayed as "エラー" - what is not nice! Why that behavior? How to switch off that mechanism? I appreciate any hint! Cheers Hartmut