UTF-8 Charset problem

Hi all,

  I’m working on a site that uses sitemesh and have hit a charset issue.  I’m in the UK and the £ symbol is getting garbled.  I’ve done some research and suspect the issue is that when sitemesh grabs the page to be decorated, it expects it to be in iso-8859-1 when it’s actually in utf-8.

  I’m running the web app on a weblogic 9.2 server.

  I’m struggling with how to tell sitemesh to use utf-8.

  I’ve tried..

-                     putting <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%> at the top of the jsp page to be decorated.

-                     putting <META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> in the page to be decorated.

-                     putting <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%> at the top of the decorator jsp page.

-                     putting <META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> at the top of the decorator jsp page.

-                     Using <decorator name="main" page="/decorators/main.jsp" encoding="utf-8"> in my decorators.xml file.

-                     Adding <jsp-descriptor><encoding>UTF8</encoding></jsp-descriptor> to the weblogic.xml file.

-                     Adding a <bean class="org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter"> that sets the encoding to UTF-8 and force to true in my spring config.

None of these has any affect at all.  If I put a £ symbol in the decorator jsp page it comes through fine.  The problem only occurs when the page being decorated contains the £ symbol.

I’ll really appreciate any help you can give.

Cheers,

Peter