Accents in Spanish

[rgarciac]

Hello,

I want to pass textual data into my application.
I have the following line in the XML document:
<DescripcionCategoria>La primera categorķa que doy de
alta</DescripcionCategoria>
but when I do the parser (with Xerces 1.2.3) I get:
La primera categor?que doy de alta

Does anybody know how can I resolve this problem?.

Thanks in advance,