Character encoding of custom tag output SOLVED

Turns out, I was wrong. Java is doing the right thing. Thanks! -- We have a situation where we've created a custom tag that reads text from a file and writes it to the pageContext.getOut() JspWriter. The problem is that the file is ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoded. When it g

Character encoding of custom tag output

We have a situation where we've created a custom tag that reads text from a file and writes it to the pageContext.getOut() JspWriter. The problem is that the file is ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoded. When it gets brought into a String (via any method you care to suggest), it gets converted to UTF-16