diff --git a/example/exampledocs/hd.xml b/example/exampledocs/hd.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml b/example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/mem.xml b/example/exampledocs/mem.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/monitor.xml b/example/exampledocs/monitor.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml b/example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/mp500.xml b/example/exampledocs/mp500.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/post.sh b/example/exampledocs/post.sh
index 7e06e49c97f..eb80fc88f83 100755
--- a/example/exampledocs/post.sh
+++ b/example/exampledocs/post.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ URL=http://localhost:8983/solr/update
 for f in $FILES; do
   echo Posting file $f to $URL
   curl $URL --data-binary @$f
+  curl $URL --data-binary @$f -H 'Content-type:text/xml; charset=utf-8' 
   echo
 done
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/sd500.xml b/example/exampledocs/sd500.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/solr.xml b/example/exampledocs/solr.xml
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diff --git a/example/exampledocs/utf8-example.xml b/example/exampledocs/utf8-example.xml
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index 00000000000..5a7d989e735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/exampledocs/utf8-example.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!-- 
+  After posting this to SOLR with post.sh, searching for "êâîôû" from 
+  the solr/admin/ search page must return this document.
+ -->
+
+<add>
+  <doc>
+    <field name="id">UTF8TEST</field>
+    <field name="name">Test with some UTF-8 encoded characters</field>
+    <field name="manu">Apache Software Foundation</field>
+    <field name="cat">software</field>
+    <field name="cat">search</field>
+    <field name="features">No accents here</field>
+    <field name="features">This is an e acute: é</field>
+    <field name="features">eaiou with circumflexes: êâîôû</field>
+    <field name="features">eaiou with umlauts: ëäïöü</field>
+    <field name="features">tag with escaped chars: &lt;nicetag/&gt;</field>
+    <field name="features">escaped ampersand: Bonnie &amp; Clyde</field>
+    <field name="price">0</field>
+    <field name="popularity">10</field>
+    <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  </doc>
+</add>
+
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml b/example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml
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