works!!! but why?
These are the magic steps to make it work:
* Add a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 header to all Faces Servlet responses with a filter
* Add URIEncoding="UTF-8" useBodyEncodingForURI="false" attributes to the HTTP Connector in server.xml
* Add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to have UTF-8 in logfiles (optional)
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