Start JBoss with JAVA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, that should fix it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117547#4117547 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4117547