Index: ks-ap/ks-ap-web/src/main/webapp/ks-myplan/scripts/myplan.widgets.js
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--- ks-ap/ks-ap-web/src/main/webapp/ks-myplan/scripts/myplan.widgets.js (revision 1343)
+++ ks-ap/ks-ap-web/src/main/webapp/ks-myplan/scripts/myplan.widgets.js (revision 1344)
@@ -154,7 +154,11 @@
     var successCallback = function (htmlContent) {
         var component;
         if (jQuery("#requestStatus", htmlContent).length <= 0) {
-            var popupForm = jQuery('<form />').attr("id", "popupForm").attr("action", formAction).attr("method", "post");
+            var popupForm = jQuery('<form />')
+                       .attr("id", "popupForm")
+                       .attr("action", formAction)
+                       .attr("accept-charset", "UTF-8")
+                       .attr("method", "post");
             component = jQuery("#" + getId, htmlContent).wrap(popupForm).parent();
         } else {
             var pageId = jQuery("#pageId").val();
Index: ks-ap/ks-ap-deployments/ks-ap-standalone/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/myplan-servlet.xml
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--- ks-ap/ks-ap-deployments/ks-ap-standalone/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/myplan-servlet.xml (revision 1343)
+++ ks-ap/ks-ap-deployments/ks-ap-standalone/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/myplan-servlet.xml (revision 1344)
@@ -45,14 +45,12 @@
     <bean id="freemarkerConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">
         <property name="preferFileSystemAccess" value="false"/>
         <property name="templateLoaderPath" value="/"/>
+        <property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8"/>
         <property name="freemarkerSettings">
             <props>
-                <prop key="template_update_delay">0</prop>
-                <prop key="cache_storage">freemarker.cache.NullCacheStorage</prop>
-        <!-- 
                 <prop key="template_update_delay">1000000</prop>
                 <prop key="cache_storage">freemarker.cache.StrongCacheStorage</prop>
-         -->
+                <prop key="url_escaping_charset">UTF-8</prop>
             </props>
         </property>
     </bean>
@@ -62,6 +60,7 @@
         <property name="cache" value="true"/>
         <property name="prefix" value=""/>
         <property name="suffix" value=".ftl"/>
+        <property name="contentType" value="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
     </bean>
 
     <!-- Setup of Mapping handler for annotations -->