Spring MVC encoding problems

[c0mrade]

I've been trying to solve this issue for days now, I hope someone here had similar issue, what I try to do isn't really that complex, it should be pretty straight forward, I'm trying to return "non" standard characters in response, ex :

@ResponseBody
    @RequestMapping(value="test")
    public String test(){
        String test = "čćžđš";
        System.out.println(test);
        logger.info(test);
        return test;
    }

When I debug it the correct value appears, but when I print it doesn't as it can be seen in the image below:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/cNegv.jpg

When I test it from jmeter, the response seems to be OK, Content-Type is text/html;charset=UTF-8

Here is a screenshot of that as well. http://i56.tinypic.com/14lt653.jpg

I think the right way is to return UTF-8, maybe I'm wrong.

Also I've tried this :

<bean class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
    <property name="messageConverters">
        <array>
            <bean class = "org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value = "text/plain;charset=UTF-8" />
            </bean>
        </array>
    </property>
</bean>

public class EncodingPostProcessor implements BeanPostProcessor {
    public Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String name)
            throws BeansException {
        if (bean instanceof AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter) {
            HttpMessageConverter<?>[] convs = ((AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter) bean).getMessageConverters();
            for (HttpMessageConverter<?> conv: convs) {
                if (conv instanceof StringHttpMessageConverter) {
                    ((StringHttpMessageConverter) conv).setSupportedMediaTypes(
                        Arrays.asList(new MediaType("text", "html", 
                            Charset.forName("UTF-8"))));
                }
            }
        }
        return bean;
    }

    public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String name)
            throws BeansException {
        return bean;
    }
}

<bean class = "EncodingPostProcessor " />

But it doesn't seem to do the trick, please help.

[Marten Deinum]

The initial string you create is that in UTF8? If it isn't you might run into trouble converting it.

Also is the encoding in/of your JSP in UTF8 and not only the response from the controller?