XML Parsing Base64 Content - Special Characters Umlaut etc

Hello!
I am currently parsing an XML file which has it's content encoded in Base64. My application parses the XML file (from a provider) and pass on the content to a GUI where the user can change the value of the nodes and store the same back in a new XML (which is then to be sent back to the provider). The Application uses only "UTF-8" . I am currently using the Base64 class provided at http://iharder.net/base64
The problem I have is that the special characters like �, � etc, are being depicted as (?) i.e. unreadable. Only when I control the decoding process i.e. String resoolt = new String (result.getBytes(), "UTF-8") do I get the correct content, and the same can be posted on the GUI.
The application produces an XML file (The application in question is a translation app), which when re-opened in the application for retranslation has the same problem... it is shown with teh special characters with (?).
After a lot of debugging I found that the XML produced by the application does not need the forcing of content into UTF-8 using the code above, it is read automatically correctly (with all the content correct), but due to the coding I have done... String resoolt = new String (result.getBytes(), "UTF-8") the nodes are decoded with the earlier problem umlauts et al missing.
Now I could use a test to differntiate between the two cases XML from the provider or the XML which is produced by my own app, and doesn"t work on the Provider and treat them differently, but I don't want this solution since the XML which my app produces is not accepted as input at the providers.
So my query.. what is the best way to go about it now... I am quite stymied >(
Thanks!
Tim

Amazingly enough some other user has the identical problem to yours and has expressed it in exactly the same words. Has the same name as you too.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=606929&tstart=0
(Cross-posting is frowned on here.)

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I have several usernames with german umlaut-characters (ü, ä, ö, ß). These usernames are not able to logon within Mail for Exchange. Is there any hint?
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E60 3.0633.09.04

Do you mean that you can not enter the characters in the username field or that it just doesn't work when you do?
Which language are you using the phone in? Which language is Mail for Exchange in?

How to convert special characters like #, &, etc occuring in the input stri

Hi,
I am using method 'Get' to submit a form . When ever there is any
special character like '#' in my input For example "033#Test", nothing
gets posted beyond 033.
Can any one please let me know how do I overcome this problem.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Moin

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I am using Oracle 10g 'XMLType' datatype to store XML files. Before storing I parse the XML document using Java Xerces Parser. If it parses successfuly, then I perform some business rule execution based on XML file which was parsed. So till this stage there is no problems. But when XML file contains some special characters like copy-paste of some description from MS-Word document into XML tags, then Xerces parser will parse such characters with out any exceptions, but while inserting XML document, Oracle database just throws exception saying unable to handle special characters.. So how to avoid such exceptions or silent such exceptions with any specific settings respect to XMLType datatype in 10g DB.
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Monica--
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This may or may not apply to BC, because I don't know what BC uses to talk to SAP under the covers.
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