I just checked again, i was able to reproduce your problem with the management portlet by adding one of those french accents in the page name. Now, i tried to do the same by using the xml descriptor, it works fine. Try to download the holloworld portal page from the portletswap.com website: http://labs.jboss.com/portal/portletswap/portlets_tutorial.html edit, helloworld-object.xml just change the Page name and add cyrillic characters. Recompile (execute build) and deploy the portlet. You should now have a page with the name you gave, if you click on it you should see the HelloWorld Portlet. Let me know. For more details on the XML descriptors please read the reference guide. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4000954#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...