Freemarker encoding - question marks in the place of accented characters

Question

I am trying to print accented characters with Freemarker, but in the place of accented characters, I get only question marks. I have verified, that following statement holds:

 "UTF-8" == Environment.getCurrentEnvironment().getConfiguration().getDefaultEncoding()

I can easily see, that the accented characters are correctly held in the variable before giving it to the template.

My freemarker context can be found here: https://gist.github.com/1975239

For instance instead of:

 Jedinečný živý koncert, kde nejen, že uslyšíte, ale i uvidíte splynutí metalové kapely s padesátičlenným orchestrem včetně.

I keep getting:

 Jedine?ný ?ivý koncert, kde nejen, ?e usly?íte, ale i uvidíte splynutí metalové kapely s padesáti?lenným orchestrem v?etn?.

Thanks.

Answer 1

For DROPWIZARD Users: passing through the UTF-8 Charset in the constructor worked out:

import io.dropwizard.views.View;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;

public class SomeView extends View {
    public SomeView() {
        super("/views/some.ftl", Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
    }
}

Answer 2

I was able to resolve a similar issue with non-standard symbols (like ™) by setting the content-type on the FreeMarkerViewResolver:

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver">
...
    <property name="contentType" value="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
...
</bean>