The issue concerning the euro symbol is not (only) due to the FileWriter i use, but to the intercepting of the euro symbol from the http request.
As a matter of fact i am using a servlet to generate xml, fo and then pdf documents. If the euro symbol is submitted to the server and if i can detect it, i could replace if with "€" or "&#nnnn;" But i can't figure out how to detect its presence within a parameter from the http request. I have tried to compare the caracters with '\u20AC' but it goes thru. I have tried to use the java.lang.Character.getNumericValue method but the euro has no numeric value. please help! Franck MARTIN
