cyrillic encoding JS

I'd like to ask some help.

I've got a problem in jsp. I've created a page and included some Russian strings in it. While it was an .htm file, there were no problems since I've put the setting like this:

<head>
<title><fmt:message key="View" bundle="${resourceBundle}"/></title>

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content='text/html;charset="UTF-8"'>
</head>

But since I renamed the file as .jsp to add some funcionality, the browser shows in ISO-8859-1 encoding, and I have to set the encoding manually in the browser settings (View->Character encoding).

It appears that the problem is not in the server (I use Sun Java System Application Server 9.1_02), but in the browser, since after I set the browser setting, it shows correctly.

Is there any solutions for this?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,