French characters in a JSP page

Question

I have an HTML page with a form that has a text field that can accept text from the user. This text can be multilanguage and when French charcters are in the text field, when the user submits the HTML form, my JSP that retrieves the text from the text field is not encoding the characters properly.
For example, this line:
�nonc� sur la sant�, la s�curit� et le milieu de travail
Into a String object in my JSP page as this:
�?nonc�� sur la sant��, la s��curit�� et le milieu de travail
This is no doubt an encoding problem but I am not sure hot to fix it.
Anyone have any recommendations?

Answer 1

That indeed helped.
I had this page directive in the JSP page that contained the form:
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>But I needed to add this line to the JSP page that the form was being posted to:
request.setCharacterEncoding( "UTF-8" );