Hi people
I need some help to a problem that's make me loose my mind.

When I try to convert toLowerCase a string, all latin characters turns
to trash...

I tried to convert using String(byte[] bytes, String enc) and
getBytes(String enc) and nothing...

thanks a for any help.

the test class, utf-8 file:
public class StringUtil
{
    public static String convertLatin( String s )
    {
        return s.toLowerCase();
    }
}

the test calling class, also utf-8 file:
public class TestConvert
{
    public String novoItem( final String novo ) /* thats novo String is
utf-8 */
    {
        return StringUtil.convertLatin( novo );
    }
}