Dash becomes question mark

Hi, I have the following Portugese text in my database: S�TIO V�RZEA DO PARAITINGA � AREIAS-SP
When I display it on my jsp page the dash becomes a question mark and the String shows like this: S�TIO V�RZEA DO PARAITINGA ? AREIAS-SP
When i log the String it looks fine but when I display it using <%=request.getAttribute("subject")%> the question mark is there instead of the dash. If I execute the following code in the servlet the problem is resolved:
subject=subject.replaceAll("�","& ndash;"); With & ndash I mean the html for dash which can not be written here without it getting converted to –. Executing the replacement should not be necessary however.
What am I doing wrong?
Niklas
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Niklas

Thank you for your reply. If I don't put the following in my jsp the page gets filled with junk:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">When I log the string before it's sent to the jsp it looks correct on windows but not on linux(!). The en dash becomes a question mark on linux.
I have tried running the mysql database both on linux and on windows and I get different results. The text in the database looks like this if I run the database on linux:
S�TIO V�RZEA DO PARAITINGA ? AREIAS-SP.
The text in the database looks like this if I access a copy of the same database when the database runs on windows:
S�TIO V�RZEA DO PARAITINGA � AREIAS-SP.
Note the difference between � and -. On windows I can replace the longer dash with its html code but on linux the dash just shows as a question mark directly from the database. I have set the database to use utf-8. The db was running on linux when the data first got inserted, now running a db with this data on window works. Why can't it work on linux? The problem is with the unicode character 'EN DASH' (U+2013)

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