If I enter a character such as e' (e with acute accent) into the JTextArea and I look at the XML file using a non-UTF-8-aware editor I see that the e' has been inserted as a single byte, not as the 2 character UTF-8 escaped value. If I subsequently try to read the XML file using XERCES it blows up because of the invalid escape sequence.
I'm certainly not sure of this, but if I had to guess I'd say it's more likely the bug is in Swing than Xerces. Can you provide a test case that demonstrates this bug without using Swing? e.g. just serializing a simple string that contains e with accent acute hard coded into the source code using a \u escape?
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Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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