AJAX-XML question

Question

Hi everybody,
I don�t know if this is the right place for this question:
I�ve followed this example:
https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/nonav/ajax/autocomplete/design.html
it works great, but I have one question about it
when the xml is generated:
sb.append("<employee>");
sb.append("<id>" + e.getId() + "</id>");
sb.append("<firstName>" + e.getFirstName() + "</firstName>");
sb.append("<lastName>" + e.getLastName() + "</lastName>");
sb.append("</employee>");
it doesn�t work for IE if any of those attributes has
strange characteres like: ���� (spanish characters)
(it doesn�t work for IE, for firefox it does)
I need those characters in my XML.
For example, I need something like:
<employee>
<id>23</id>
<firstName>Jos�</firstName>
<lastName>G�mez</lastName>
</id>
</employee>
does anybody know how can I do this?, any idea?
thanks for your time

Answer 1

it doesn�t work for me
               sb.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
               sb.append("<provincias><provincia><nombre>");
               sb.append("Alcal�");
               sb.append("</nombre><id>3324</id></provincia></provincias>");          
               byte byteContent[] = sb.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
               response.getWriter().write(new String(byteContent,"UTF-8"));
thanks