German Umlaut Problem

[Werner Punz]

I have a problem with special chars,
I have a page with a simple form, and an entry
field and whenever I put in special chars which are out of the ascii
scope I get garbage back (the data bean is filled with garbage)
The form basically looks like this:
  
       <h:form id="testin g" >
           <h:inputText id="inputText" size="20" 
value="#{testingbean.entry}"  />
          
           <h:commandLink id="link" action="submit">
                 <h:outputText value="Submit"/>
           </h:commandLink>           
       </h:form>

And the resulting html is generated with charset iso-8859-1 and
an xform-urlencoded tag
but due to some strange kind of reason the passing of characters
does not work properly and the backend data bean gets not url encoded
chars in whatever format.
Does anybody know where the problem is?