--- PropFindMethod.java	Thu Mar 29 00:26:00 2001
+++ PropFindMethod.java	Tue Apr 24 13:20:54 2001
@@ -441,7 +441,10 @@
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
-        
+
+        // set the content type before getting the write for a correct character encoding
+        resp.setContentType("text/xml; charset=utf-8");
+
         // Create multistatus object
         XMLPrinter generatedXML = new XMLPrinter(resp.getWriter());