This is similar to 4715925 The ControlPanel's Help is garbled in many locales. The HTMLConverter Help is implemented as HTML file. When localized, the HTML file will display correctly on Windows platform (if the file is saved in windows encoding), but on Solaris and Linux, for each language, there are several supported locales/encodings. Only the locale that uses the same encoding as windows will display correctly. Other locales will be garbled. (assuming this dialog was implemented the same way as previous ControlPanel Help). Currently, ControlPanel help has been converted to .java resource bundle format. The encoding is unicode and will work for all locales once translated (being translated).