I am calling a rule to generate a set of data which is being send over a JMS Que

OK. Thanks. I'll try now with this custom function:

@Function
          public String convertStringToUtf8(ServiceContext sc, @Parameter String string) throws AppianException {
                    byte ptext[] = string.getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
                    String utf8String = new String(ptext, UTF_8);
                    return utf8String;
          }

OK. Thanks. I'll try now with this custom function:

@Function
          public String convertStringToUtf8(ServiceContext sc, @Parameter String string) throws AppianException {
                    byte ptext[] = string.getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
                    String utf8String = new String(ptext, UTF_8);
                    return utf8String;
          }