Enable UTF-8 Encoding for your Applications
On the Mailing List I found an interesting Post about how to enable UTF-8 if you are running Turbine 2.3.2 and later
services.VelocityService.input.encoding=UTF-8
services.VelocityService.output.encoding=UTF-8
locale.default.charset=UTF-8
input.encoding=UTF-8
Enjoy