I'm writing an ANT task in Java.

In my build.xml I specify parameters, which should be read from my java class. Problems occur, when I use special characters, like german umlauts (Ö,Ä,Ü) in these parameters. In my java task they appear as ?-characters (using System.out.print).

All my files are encoded as UTF-8. and my build.xml has the corresponding declaration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

For the details of writing the task: I do it according to http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html (especially Point 5 nested elements). I have nested elements in my task like:

<parameter name="test"   value="ÖÄÜtest"/>

and a java method:

public void addConfiguredParameter(Parameter prop) {
    System.out.println(prop.getValue());
    //prints ???test
}

to read the parameter values.