Hello I've got a xwiki installation that contains vietnamese characters encoded in UTF-8. I can see the characters without problem in my browser. However it seems I canno't generate PDF when there are vietnamese characters. I've got the below exception in Tomcat. You can test it by your self on http://www.cosgov.org Best regards -- Xavier MOGHRABI - Consortium ObjectWeb Email: xavier.moghrabi at objectweb.org Phone: +33 4 76 61 52 35 - Skype ID: xavier.moghrabi.bureau -- line 5 column 1 - Warning: <html> has XML attribute "xml:lang" line 49 column 316 - Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute line 54 column 1 - Warning: replacing illegal character code 135 10:07:06,335 WARN TP-Processor17 http://www.cosgov.org/xwiki/bin/pdf/Main/WebHome ViewEditAction:execute:239 - Uncaught exception: Error number 12003 in 12: XSL Transformation Failed Wrapped Exception: Invalid byte 3 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 12003 in 12: XSL Transformation Failed Wrapped Exception: Invalid byte 3 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. at com.xpn.xwiki.pdf.impl.PdfExportImpl.applyXsl(PdfExportImpl.java:169) at com.xpn.xwiki.pdf.impl.PdfExportImpl.convertXHtmlToXMLFO(PdfExportImpl.java:147) at com.xpn.xwiki.pdf.impl.PdfExportImpl.exportXHtml(PdfExportImpl.java:79) at com.xpn.xwiki.pdf.impl.PdfExportImpl.exportHtml(PdfExportImpl.java:108) at com.xpn.xwiki.pdf.impl.PdfExportImpl.export(PdfExportImpl.java:122) at com.xpn.xwiki.pdf.impl.PdfExportImpl.exportToPDF(PdfExportImpl.java:112) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiService.renderPDF(XWikiService.java:892) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.ViewEditAction.execute(ViewEditAction.java:168) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:421) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:226) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:526) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:526) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:307) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:385) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:748) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:678) at org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:871) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Wrapped Exception: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 3 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence. at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source) ...