Have you tried explicitly setting the encoding to UTF-8? Another problem may be in your Java code. I had this issue a while ago when reading in characters using a character stream (as opposed to a byte stream). The JRE wants to convert all input in a character stream into some default encoding and when it cannot determine the value of a byte, it replaces it with a question mark (?).
By changing the input streams into byte streams (a little annoying sometimes, I know), I was able to preserve any characters coming in that did not fit nicely into Java's default encoding. Hope this helps. Brion Swanson -----Original Message----- From: Dr A.C. Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: entity appears as ? Dear Esteemed collegues, I have been using java servlets / xerces / jserv for a while now. We recently switched over to tomcat and have one very odd problem - connected with references to (which is defined in an entity file as  ) . Under jserv things worked fine - under tonmcat, xerces substitutes a ? whenever it encounters a   That is to say the characters() method of the document handler has a ? in the string where the   should be. I have tried other parsers, eg, aelfred, and get the same effect. Now I guess the change is related to us now using jdk 1.4 rather than the switch to tomcat. I have tried generating 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 target code but still get the ?'s! I'm sure this is a very simple problem .... but what is the solution? Adam Marshall -- Dr AC Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). LUSID System Programmer, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Liverpool. Cheese of the Millenium: Quejo con Piri Piri This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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