Help:displaying Arabic characters using XSL

How do I display static Arabic characters using XSL in a HTML page, from within a JSP?
I need to display a HTML page wherein static Arabic characters have to be shown. I use the following XSL document with static Arabic characters inside:
<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="booklist">
<BODY BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF">
<H1>^GFcI cSGZOI
</H1>
<P> This will illustrate the transformation of XML file containing list of books to a HTML table form
</P>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</BODY>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="booklist/book">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="booklist/book/title">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="booklist/book/author">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="booklist/book/publisher"/>
<xsl:template match="booklist/book/price"> Price: $
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When I try to read the XSL document using an IO stream, like this,
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("myXSLDocument.xsl");
XSLStylesheet stylesheet = new XSLStylesheet(inputStream, null);
from within a JSP, I get a null pointer exception as shown below:
java.lang.NullPointerException:
at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XSLStylesheet.<init>(XSLStylesheet.java:175)
at mip.portlets._cardvalidaterportlet._cardentry._jspService(_cardentry.java:143)
at oracle.jsp.runtime.HttpJsp.service(HttpJsp.java)
at oracle.jsp.app.JspApplication.dispatchRequest(JspApplication.java)
at oracle.jsp.JspServlet.doDispatch(JspServlet.java)
at oracle.jsp.JspServlet.internalService(JspServlet.java, Compiled Code)
at oracle.jsp.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:588)
at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.JspRenderer.renderBody(JspRenderer.java:133)
at oracle.portal.provider.v1.RenderManager.render(RenderManager.java:164)
at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.ServletProviderResponse.showPortlet(ServletProviderResponse.java:510)
at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.HttpProvider.dispatchProviderAction(HttpProvider.java:647)
at oracle.portal.provider.v1.http.HttpProvider.service(HttpProvider.java:383)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:588)
at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.processRequest(JServConnection.java, Compiled Code)
at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.run(JServConnection.java, Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)
I have no problems parsing the same XSL containing static Arabic text using Transviewer beans' XSLTransformPanelSample class. This means that my XSL has no errors in it.
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You need to use the correct and the same character encoding (charset) thorough the complete process.
Whenever you get question marks, then it means that the charset used does not recognize the bytes (which on its turn are apparently encoded by a different charset).
This is an important read, read it from top to bottom, preferably twice: [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html].

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