title: Save Chinese characters with Spring-MVC / Java
body: <p>I'm trying to save Chinese characters from a form submit into the database.</p>
  
  <p>I've set the contentType on the jsp via </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've also set this tag inside the  of the jsp:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I submit the form, my controller sees a different character than what I entered.</p>
  
  <p>I am entering the character 我 and seeing æ?? in the controller.  When the data redisplays on the page, it shows the same wrong character (æ??).</p>
  
  <p>Why isn't the controller getting the correct character?</p>