spring mvc and Hebrew

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Hi All
I have a problem where Hebrew characters are not received well on the server side
This is the method signatuer

    @RequestMapping("/autocomplete")
    @ResponseBody
    public List<AutoCompleteResult> autocomplete(@RequestParam(value = "term", required = false) String searchPattern,
            SearchParameters search)

I used the CharacterEncodingFilter and on the server.xml added the attributes useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
URIEncoding="UTF-8" in the Connector tag
trying to use this url
localhost:8080/cgs2/domain/rest/expertise/autocomplete?term=%99
or
localhost:8080/cgs2/domain/rest/expertise/autocomplete?term=ש
gave me the same result
I am working with IDE STS and server VMware vFabric tc Server Developer Edition v2.6 [VMware vFabric tc Server]

any ideas