€ symbol not defined

Question

I have a list in my action which I field by values saved on a MySql DB.

I only have one object stored, which has designation €.

In jsp when I do

Answer 1

Place this on the top of the JSP page. Symbols in UTF-8 encoding displays better than ?.

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