JSON character encoding

Question

My Java web application submits an AJAX request that returns JSON such:

{\'value\': \'aériennes\'}

When \'aériennes\' is displayed in the w

Answer 1

That happened to me exactly the same with this:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="application/json" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

But this works for me:

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

Try adding

 ;charset=UTF-8

to your contentType.