http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/text/stream.html
Yes, its confusing. Sun calls its own encoding format as "Unicode" and the above webpage talks about how to convert between Java's Unicode format and the UTF-8 format. Its just a matter of specifying "UTF-8" when creating output streams. I may have remembered wrongly, but I do seem to recall old Lucene code that was designed to run on JDK 1.1 actually did this "UTF-8" conversion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]