jsp utf encoding

Question

I\'m having a hard time figuring out how to handle this problem:

I\'m developing a web tool for an Italian university, and I have to display words with accents (such

Answer 1

I have some international jsp's [which have "special" international (with respect to English) characters].

Inserting this [and only this, i.e: no contentType directive also (that made a duplicate contentType error)] at the top of them got them to save and render correctly:

<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

This reference [http://www.inter-locale.com/codeset1.jsp] helped me discover that.