FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-b64)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-b64, mixed mode, sharing)

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Wondows 2000

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
in the class
com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.Encoding
the variable
SUN_CHAR2BYTE_CONVERTER_METHOD ist always null, because
the method findCharToByteConverterMethod() returns always with null.
That is because that the Transtormer class makes the serialization wrong if the
encoding is not utf-8.
If I set the encoding windows-1252 and try to serialize an xml , in witch there is
an euro character . The euro charactre will be serialzed as &#8364.



STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1. make an xml whch consists euro characters as tagvalue an as cddata value
2. load the xml into aone dom document
3. make a tranfomerfactory in this way
Transformer tr = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT,"yes");
tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION,"yes");
tr.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "3");
tr.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING,"windows-1252");
4. try to serialize the document


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
in the serialized document the euro character is &#8364 but
should be 0x80

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
if I change the source of com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.Encoding

private static Method findCharToByteConverterMethod() {
     /*
        try
        {
         System.err.println("findCharToByteConverterMethod 00");
            AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() {
                public Object run() {
                    try {
                     System.err.println("findCharToByteConverterMethod 01");
                        Class charToByteConverterClass = (Class)
                        Class.forName("sun.io.CharToByteConverter");
                        Class argTypes[] = {String.class};
                        System.err.println("findCharToByteConverterMethod 02 "+charToByteConverterClass.getMethod("getConverter", argTypes));
                        return charToByteConverterClass.getMethod("getConverter", argTypes);
                    }
                    catch (Exception e) {
                     e.printStackTrace(System.err);
                        throw new RuntimeException(e.toString());
                    }
                }});
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.err.println(
                "Warning: Could not get charToByteConverterClass!");
        }

        return null;
        */
        
        
        try{
         Class charToByteConverterClass = (Class)
         Class.forName("sun.io.CharToByteConverter");
         Class argTypes[] = {String.class};
         return charToByteConverterClass.getMethod("getConverter", argTypes);
        }catch(Exception e){
         return null;
        }
    }