Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello All,

We have a SAX parser(Xerces Java Implementation) that we use to parse a XML file. All our input XML files are 'UTF-8' encoded.We find that the parsing fails on Solaris and it goes through if the encoding is set explicitly to 'UTF-8' for the SAX parser. The same parsing seems to work fine on Windows OS without any explicit setting of encoding.
I would like to know what is the default encoding used by Xerces SAX Parser ?. Does it simply use the default encoding provided by the JVM when Xerces starts up?.
The 'file.encoding' property in Solaris is set to 'ASCII' whereas in Windows it is showing as 'cp1252'. Does this explain the behavior of the Xerces parser ?

Any pointers will be appreciated.