Support for Czech characters - localization

I am trying to implement language support for the Czech and the Polish language. However, I am not able to store and display certain characters for these languages.

I am using a custom message catalog to store all the text.

If I edit a Czech user via the debug pages with certain characters, the user object gets corrupted.

Even in the case of message catalog, if unrecognized chars are saved and the application is restared, it simply crashes.

Details:

WebSphere Application server v6.0.2.5

Oracle 10.1.0.4

Sun IdM v5.5

eg: 'Konfigura鑞?formul狲 pro report GE pracovn韐 jeho role a p鴌鴄zen?SAP'

gets replaced by:

'Konfiguracn? formul?r pro report GE pracovn?k jeho role

a prirazen? SAP'

Do I have to setup different encoding type or something.

Please advise.

[847 byte] By [aquamineralia] at [2007-11-26 19:14:07]