Hi Kai,
This is precisely what's happening, the characters are being encoded in such a fashion. For example, the "Eugene" I mentioned before shows up in the URL as "Euge%CC%81ne". The problem lies in that the encoding of the original text used is UTF-8, but that encoding doesn't seem to carrying in the URL through the http interfacing of glassfish to the servlet behind. The characters seem to have been decoded through a different filter, so to speak (like ISO-8859-1).
Thanks,
Peter
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