Issue with Danish characters

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We are entering a danish keyword in text box and clicking submit button.Then we are trying to get the entered keyword using request.getParameter in the same JSP.But we are not getting the entered keyword.
FOr ex,if we enter the keyword 'Allm�n',while getting as request.getParameter("searchword") we are getting as "Allm�?n".

we have used the following page directive at the top

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>

Please help.
[originally posted on jforum.net by sangeethas]