Hm... I think there are many possible points of failure for the encoding...
- maybe your browser thinks the page is not utf-8. Is the encoding set correctly either in a http response header or html meta tag? - what do you use for building your project? If you use maven, check the "encoding" argument for the compiler plugin configuration. If it is not set, maven will assume the source files are in the platform default encoding, no matter what eclipse says. Also, as a quick workaround, you could use the html entity ° and use t:outputRaw instead of the $ notation. hth, Lutz On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Christoph Jäger <christoph.jae...@polleninfo.org> wrote: > Hi José, > > the java files seem to be UTF-8. At least Eclipse tells me so, and if I > write some of the special characters to stdout (from a test case, not > running in Tomcat), everything is fine. > > Thanks, > > Christoph > -- altocon GmbH http://www.altocon.de/ Software Development, Consulting Hamburg, Germany