Since the port to 4.2 and seam 1.3 (CVS.20070531), I've a problem serving my UTF-8 encoded static js files that were ok with 4.0.5 and seams 1.2.1. The problem is also not there if I use a simple war file serving those static files in jboss 4.2. That's why I think the problem might come from seam. A simple UTF-8 javascript file with BOM at the beginning of the file is served with the machine's encoding (iso-8859-1 in my case). To reproduce the problem (inside the booking example) : 1. get the file from http://www.relationblog.com/ecrire/tools/fckeditor/editor/lang/en.js and put it in seam.home/examples/booking/view/js 2. deploy 3. go to http://localhost:8080/seam-booking/js/en.js : the file encoding is wrong and you can see the 3 BOM characters at the beginning of the file that should not be displayed View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4051005#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...