Hi Michael,
I am having the same problem as well and I did tried everything you all have suggested.  My original problem was with lamda sign.  Just for the sake of it, I tried the dagger symbol.  Same result!!!

Thanks
Mathy

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Michael Kay wrote:

> > I do see the dagger symbol (†) in the xml file (using
> > nodepad).  Once I apply the syle sheet † becomes ⤢, and in
> > PDF † is #.  I realize that † is not present in iso-8859-1.
>
> If you see a dagger symbol in the file when you view it using NodePad, then the file cannot be in iso-8859-1 encoding. Forget FOP: you need to solve the problem by ensuring that the actual encoding of the XML file and the encoding declared in its XML declaration are the same.
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