Simple problem with encoding

Which encoding does HTTP use ?
I'm building a web-site.
A response to a question asked to the client is given in a HTML text field.
My HTML page uses utf-8 encoding.
This response is transmitted to a servlet as an HTTP request parameter.
When this response contains characters as '�' or '�' (french characters), these characters are replaced by others in the result of the request.getParameter(...) method in the doGet() of my servlet.
How can I do so that the result of the request.getParameter(...) method is exactly the string put in the text field ?
Thank's a lot.

Maybe my response to another thread helps...
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=33&thread=274142
Regards,
Harrz

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