I found an old Red Hat Linux system where I could run the supplied test case. Precisely, it is Red Hat Enterprise Linux V4 update 3 for i386. I installed Maven 1.1-beta-2 with maven-xdoc-plugin-1.9.2 and the attached test case. I created a script that matches the actions in build_de.bat, build_en.bat, build_fr.bat, and build_zh_TW.bat.
Except for the unrelated problem caused by poison properties files in src\i18nBundles (see the comments in the JIRA issue), the HTML was generated CORRECTLY. NOTE: I did NOT have to modify the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variables, as suggested in the xDoc plugin FAQ or in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPXDOC-184 . By default, LANG was already set to LANG="en_US.UTF-8". I dumped the Java system properties and observed that file.encoding=UTF-8 by default. So, that begs the question, "Why doesn't this work on a Windows XP system when you use -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to override the default file encoding?" Its a mystery.
