title: Google maps autocomplete with JSF error with ÄÖÜ
body: <p>we're using google maps autocomplete in our JSF application, but when we choose a name with öäü the backingBean gets eg. Ã as value. We have set our meta info of the site to utf-8, but this didn't help in this case.</p>
  
  <p>we added it like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"
          src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&amp;amp;sensor=false&amp;amp;libraries=places&amp;amp;key=AIzaSyChQPYNPhodC79W6-oGzlVgQJEwfFMG_bs" /&gt;
      &lt;script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;
          function addGMapAutoComplete(componentId) {
              var component = document.getElementById('createRequest:' + componentId);
              if (component) {
                  new google.maps.places.Autocomplete(component);
              }
          }
      &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and used as</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p:inputText id="pickupLocation"
                                              value="#{createRequest.pickupLocation}" required="true"
                                              onfocus="addGMapAutoComplete('location')"
                                              style="width:350px" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can anyone help with this issue?</p>