I had problems with my list grids not showing diacritics correctly and I found out that when I inserted from java into the DB the values were already bugged.
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To be quite sure, you have something with pageEncoding like this?
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>