title: special character encoding error utf-8 iso-8859-1
body: <p>I'm having problems displaying special characters (like é and à) in my jsf application. These characters get displayed as a question mark or Ã©.
  Therefore I tried a simple thing. I have a page with a form post to a result page displaying the posted parameters.</p>
  
  <p>page 1</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; UTF-8"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;form method="POST" action="http://localhost:8080/test/result.xhtml" name="data"  target="_blank"&gt;
  &lt;input type="hidden" value="Pierre;DUPONT;5300;Seilles;;Rue des écoles 18;fr;;" name="customer"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>page result</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; UTF-8"/&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body &gt;
  
  test
  
      &lt;h:inputText value="${param.customer}"/&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>The result is shown as ue des Ã©coles  in stead of ue des écoles </p>
  
  <p>I'm developing in Eclipse with Text-file encoding on UTF-8 and running on tomcat 6.024</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>