Hi, My encoding problem has a good progress. I appreciate the valuable help so far on this problem. It was the encoding of the shell/terminal, on which the application server is running, which is mattering. It was showing correct special characters when the default encoding of the terminal is ISO8859-1 and spitting ?? when the default encoding of the terminal is set to ASCII.
Now the problem is shifted furhtur in the flow. We are storing all the data in the DB. And it showing proper characters (®) (on UI, we use web browser) on UI when the data is pulled from a DB having W7ISO8859-1 as encoding. But, showing some funky characters (like "B.") in place of the ® when the data is being pulled out of DB having ASCII as encoding. The code is the same for the server application and client application. Server side code has xml processing and uses JDOM. It uses UTF-8 encoding while building the document. I appreciate any help/advices!! Thanks,
