Java is among the last holdouts for Latin-1-encoding - you still have to jump through hoops with Spring MVC to properly send UTF-8 encoded responses http://sta

Java is among the last holdouts for Latin-1-encoding - you still have to jump through hoops with Spring MVC to properly send UTF-8 encoded responses http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3616359 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3616359 Also the encoding for .properties files is specified as Latin-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties