Hi! Thanks for your response. All I've specified is the content-type (as an html meta-tag) in my template, which is set to utf-8. Though now when you mentioned it, I looked through the seam reference again and added this to my components.xml. <web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-8" override-client="true" url-pattern="*.seam"/> Although, that didn't make any difference either. Should I add the encoding to some other place as well? The URL is formed correctly, but in the input-field, "åaa" has become "Ã¥aa". Note that this only occurs after going between result-pages (with the s:links). The initial search (with the h:commandButton) works fine. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4099810#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...