how to get utf-8 data from query string in JSP

Hi,

I want to get utf-8 data from query string in jsp page therefore I have written following simple JSP page

But I am getting garbaage instead of utf-8 data.

I want to know how to get utf-8 data from query string in JSP

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.Random.*"%>
<%
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
String strFirstName=request.getParameter("firstname");
String strLastName=request.getParameter("lastname");
String strEmail=request.getParameter("email");
String strPassword=request.getParameter("password1");

out.println("<br/>First Name => "+strFirstName);
out.println("<br/>Last Name => "+strLastName);
out.println("<br/>Email => "+strEmail);
out.println("<br/>Password => "+strPassword);

%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>New Contact</title>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 
<link href="Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>

<table width="500" align="left" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" class="accountInfo"><div align="left"><h2>New Contact Information</h2> </div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" class="accountInfo"> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" class="accountInfo"> </td>
  </tr>

<tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="center" class="accountInfo"> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="200" align="center"><div align="left"><strong>First Name  </strong><span class="style3">* </span></div></td>
    <td width="300" align="left"><label>
      <input type="text" width="300px" name="firstname" id="firstname" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="200" align="center"><div align="left"><strong>Last Name</strong><span class="style3"> *</span> </div></td>
    <td width="300" align="left"><input width="300px" type="text" name="lastname"  id="lastname"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="200" align="center"><div align="left"><strong>Email</strong></div></td>
    <td width="300" align="left"><input width="300px" type="text" name="email"  id="email"/></td>
  </tr>
    <tr>
    <td width="200" align="center"><div align="left"><strong>Password</strong></div></td>
    <td width="300" align="left"><input width="300px" type="password" name="password1"  id="password1"/></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> </td>
    <td align="left"><label>
      <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
    </label></td>
  </tr>
</table>

</form>

</body>
</html>

But I am getting garbaage instead of utf-8 data.

How do you know that? Where does out.println print to - something that's capable of displaying UTF-8? Most console aren't.