Help with UTF-8 / Working in JSP not in a Bean Help

Question

I am struggling with for last few hours. All I am doing is
public class Text extends Object implements Serializable {
public static Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
public static void initL10N(){
public static String xyz = "आपके";
ht.put("hindi",xyz);
in a JavaBean and trying to access the string in a Jsp Out.jsp as <%=Text.ht.get("hindi")%> I am getting Junk characters.
But to my surprise: If I do that in a jsp: as (since I declared the ht as public static it's accessable to the new JSP called L10NInit.jsp
<%
Text.ht.put("hindi2","&#2310;&#2346;&#2325;&#2375;")l
%>
and execute the Out.jsp and then execute my orginal jsp to get the string as <%=Text.ht.get("hindi2")%> it displays beautifully.
I tried every thing else before turning to this forum. Please help.
Environment: NetBeans5.5

Answer 1

You need to use exact the same and the correct charset encoding thoroughout the whole process. Maybe your JSP or response headers used/contained the wrong encoding.
[Read this important article about unicode|http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html].