http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/4.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net foundList1 = WebService.postalCodeSearch(pcsq); for (PostalCode postalCode : foundList1) { System.out.println(postalCode.getPlaceName()); } Any ideas? Thank you very much in advance! Dimi ]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1473.page#6153 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1473.page#6153 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1473.page#6156 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1473.page#6156 GMT foundList = WebService.postalCodeSearch(pcsq); ..... response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); //this line solved the problem //returnObject is an JSON object response.getWriter().write(returnObject.toString()); I hope this helps someone, who tries to implement autocompletion using a servlet and the geonames Java client Dimi ]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1473.page#6186 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1473.page#6186 GMT