Hi,

thanks for your quick answer.

> Check with "locale charmap" what the encoding of the currently 
> set locale is. You should get "ISO-8859-1" with SuSE 7.0 and 
> "ISO 8859-15" with SuSE 7.2 for "LANG=de_DE". You should get 
> "UTF-8" for "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8". 
I get ISO-8859-1 all right.

> If that is all right, then probably your application or JVM is broken and 
> does not check the locale correctly with "nl_langinfo(CODESET)". File a 
> bug report to whoever wrote it or check the source code how the output
> charset is determined. May be some Java expert here knows more. 
Mhh, when I print out the default locale from my java program, it says de_DE
as well.

Still thinking about it.

Thanks, Heike

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