Characters Å Ä Ö is not getting displayed in my DDL, how can I tell restclient to utilize a specific charset?

Question

Before I start here is the problem. It should be like this:

Björn Nilsson, instead its displaying strange special characters, all values that have characters Å, Ä a

Answer 1

There is most likely a mismatch between the character set of the text and what the browser interprets as the character set.

Do you have a tag for content or charset?

Given the character set you send is UTF-8, and you are using HTML5, this would be the appropriate tag

Or in earlier versions of HTML

For iso-8859-1 or any other charset, just replace the charset attribute.