Hi All, Sorry if here is not the right place to do a suggestion of this subject. Please take a look on this post: http://www.heliofrota.com/blog/2013/03/18/understanding-java-encoding/ I would suggest taking en_US.UTF-8 as default when the LANG variable is not set to avoid problems with encoding. Thanks. -- Helio Frota http://www.heliofrota.com/