redirect charset woes

[Denis Krizanovic]

hiyas,

I've been playing with Xalan 1.2, more particularly the redirect extension.

My source XML is encoded in UTF-8, and I'm writing multiple HTML files from
this single source.

Everything works hunky-dorey for english - the second I try to get fancy and
transform XML files that contain Japanese, I get rubbish in my HTML. [or so
it seems]

Is there something special I need to do to preserve the encoding? 

btw, I cannot upgrade to Xalan2 [I'm using it from weblogic].

regards,
dk-