Freemarker encoding - question marks in the place of accented characters

Question

I am trying to print accented characters with Freemarker, but in the place of accented characters, I get only question marks. I have verified, that following statement holds

Answer 1

For DROPWIZARD Users: passing through the UTF-8 Charset in the constructor worked out:

import io.dropwizard.views.View;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;

public class SomeView extends View {
    public SomeView() {
        super("/views/some.ftl", Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
    }
}