Euro Symbol Conversion Linux to Windows

Hi,
I have got a web application running on JBoss/Tomcat/Apache in a Linux environment. This application generates a report which uses euro as a currency (generated by NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance()). One function is to download the report in a CSV format, which can be imported into any spreadsheet application. The problem is the conversion of the euro symbol.
My first attempt is using a servlet and doing something like
response.setContentType("application/x-filler; charset=ISO8859-15");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; " + cHeader);
response.getWriter().print(cReport.toString());The problem is, that the euro symbol is converted into 0x80, which is a control character in the "normal" ISO-8859-1 (not in Windows), which is converted into 0x3F ("?"). The best thing would be, to use UTF-8, but unfortunately, MS Excel, which is the customers standard spreadsheet application, can't import UTF-8, so I have to go with ISO-8859-1.
I tried all kinds of different conversion attempts (getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), different charset values, ...), but nothing worked so far.
Does anybody has an idea how to do convert Unicode on a Linux Application Server to Windows ISO-8859-1/15?
Thanks for any help,
Thorsten.

hi,
i have the same problem. i want to output a currency to the browser. the characterencoding of the page is utf-8. i can't convert what is coming from the numberformat to something displayed correctly in the browser.
this is what i try:
output = nf.format(euros);
response.getOutputStream().write(output.getBytes("UTF-8"));
any ideas?

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