People: I have been having this problem for a while and I can't figure what is wrong. I will really appreciate any tips. I have a UTF-8 encoded xml file and I'm converting it to another xml using XSL. The problem is that in the transformed xml the spanish characters instead of preserving the UFT-8 representation are converted to... how to explain it?... to its correct grafical representation (the document is perfectly legible but not UTF-8 encoded ) therefore, I get a UTF-8 encoded file with no utf-8 characters in it, and the Java program which parses the xml throws a invalid format exception. I have made this test directly using XALAN and works ok. but, when I'm using cocoon I get the erroneos characters. I found a workaround using the xhtml formatter instead of the xml formatter. Using the xhtml formatter the non-us characters are preserved and the java programs parses the xml perfectly. Where is the problem? in Cocoon ? in the servlets container? in I? Thanks.... Andres PS: I'm using c1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>