How to set the charset with JAX-RS?

Question

How can I set the charset with JAX-RS? I\'ve tried @Produces(\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\") but that was ignored and only text/html was send with th

Answer 1

What I do is to get an instance of the servlet response object:

protected @Context HttpServletResponse response;

And then set the character encoding to utf-8:

response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");

That works for me.