This is Spring MVC application. I put this to spring-servlet.xml <?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?> and

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Asked: June 11, 20262026-06-11T20:57:00+00:00 2026-06-11T20:57:00+00:00

This is Spring MVC application. I put this to spring-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

and this to web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

and this to .jsp file at the top

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

and this to .jsp file insideof the html opening tag

<META  http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Still it displays only question marks instead of German umlaut characters. What else do I need to add?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-11T20:57:01+00:00

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In the properties file I need to use unicode escapes like as in \uXXXX for each character beyond the supported range of ISO-8859-1.

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