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I quite like writing quick web applications using Spring and Velocity. I've often been annoyed by the fact that I quite often get character encoding problems:

Today I finally got around to looking into this and fixing it. It turns out that Velocity defaults to using the ISO-8859-1 encoding. Using Spring's VelocityViewResolver this can be changed:

	<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityViewResolver">
		<property name="cache" value="true"/>
		<property name="prefix" value=""/>
		<property name="suffix" value=".vm"/>
		<property name="contentType" value="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
	</bean>