Character encoding problem using XSLT and Tomcat on Linux

Question

Hi,
I have an application running on a Tomcat 4.1.18 application server that applies XSLT transformations to DOM objects using standard calls to javax.xml.transform API. The JDK is J2SE 1.4.1_01.
It is all OK while running on a development enviroment (which is Windows NT 4.0 work station), but when I put it in the production enviroment (which is a red hat linux 8.0), it comes up with some kind of encoding problem: the extended characters (in spanish) are not shown as they should.
The XSL stylesheets are using the ISO-8859-1 encoding, but I have also tried with UTF-8.
These stylesheets are dynamicly generated from a JSP:
// opens a connection to a JSP that generates the XSL
URLConnection urlConn = (new URL( xxxxxx )).openConnection();
Reader readerJsp = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( urlConn.getInputStream() ));
// Gets the object that represents the XSL
Templates translet = tFactory.newTemplates( new StreamSource( readerJsp ));
Transformer transformer = translet.newTransformer();
// applies transformations
// the output is sent to the HttpServletResponse's outputStream object
transformer.transform(myDOMObject, new StreamResult(response.getOutputStream()) );Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Probably you need to set your LANG OS especific environment variable to spanish.
Try adding this line:
export LANG=es_ES
to your tomcat/bin/catalina.sh, and restart tomcat.
It should look like this:
# OS specific support.  $var _must_ be set to either true or false.
cygwin=false
case "`uname`" in
CYGWIN*) cygwin=true;;
esac
export LANG=es_ES
# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
PRG="$0"
.(BTW, keep using ISO-8859-1 encoding for your XSL)
HTH
Un Saludo!