Entities.encode is not UTF-8 compliant

I'm testing NUTCH in a French setup, I just came accross an accent problem
when doing search

Debugging I found :
+ search.jsp works all over in UTF-8, so the query string is UTF-8 encoded
+ yet it calls Entities.encode which assumes strings 8bits encoding,
probably iso-latin-1

Anyone came across this issue or having a patch for this ?

Just to make sure I replaced all utf-8 declaration in search.jsp, by
iso-8859-1, works fine & perfect.

Looks like a bug to me.

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-MilleBii-