My root facelets template just has the direct meta HTML tag in it: | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> | The Seam blog example uses an f:view in its template.xhtml but specifies the encoding in a direct meta tag. I didn't even think f:view had such a parameter? I don't even use f:view, as I never saw it in the facelets developer documentation: https://facelets.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/dev/docbook.html#gettingstarted-... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047763#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...