For what it's worth... This might not be much help, but...

> manage it - specifically éè which it indexes as Ú & Þ respectively, then

That kind if swap is usually a symptom of one process interpreting things  
as being in a different character encoding than another process. Swish-e  
doesn't display anything itself; whatever display software you're using is  
probably interpreting the character encoding differently from your indexer.

The default character encoding for XML is UTF-8, but you're probably using  
Latin1 in the Solaris environment. Are you throwing Latin1 at XML and then  
someone else is interpreting the UTF-8 as Latin1?

	Rick