accented characters in XMLRPC arguments

[Dylan McNamee]

I'm having troubles sending a String that contains accented characters 
as an argument to an XMLRPC function.

Specifically, when I send a String containing an accented character 
(e.g. �) into the param list, I get the following exception:

java.io.IOException: Invalid character data corresponding to XML entity 
√
	at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient$Worker.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:444)
	at org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.execute(XmlRpcClient.java:163)
...

It would seem I need to do some kind of XML encoding on this string 
(and some kind of XML decoding on the other end...) -- shouldn't that 
be the kind of thing the XMLRPC library does for me?

Absent that support, is there a String -> XML entities and XML 
entities->String coder/decoder handy, or do I need to write it myself?

Thanks!
dylan