Japanese text causes exception in Resin

日本語 (japanese) text causes exception.

500 Servlet Exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
at webwork.view.taglib.BasicPropertyTag.doAfterBody(BasicPropertyTag.java:75)
at secure._views._issue._viewissue_jsp._jspService(/includes/panels/issue_descriptiontable.jsp:51)
at com.caucho.jsp.JavaPage.service(JavaPage.java:75)
at com.caucho.jsp.Page.subservice(Page.java:497)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainPage.doFilter(FilterChainPage.java:182)
at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocation.java:315)
at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(CacheInvocation.java:115)
at com.caucho.server.http.QRequestDispatcher.forward(QRequestDispatcher.java:225)
at com.caucho.server.http.QRequestDispatcher.forward(QRequestDispatcher.java:106)
at com.caucho.server.http.QRequestDispatcher.forward(QRequestDispatcher.java:83)
at webwork.dispatcher.ServletDispatcher.service(ServletDispatcher.java:221)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:103)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainServlet.doFilter(FilterChainServlet.java:96)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:129)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:61)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.SitemeshExcludePathFilter.doFilter(SitemeshExcludePathFilter.java:35)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainFilter.doFilter(FilterChainFilter.java:88)
at com.atlassian.core.security.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:170)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainFilter.doFilter(FilterChainFilter.java:88)
at com.atlassian.core.security.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:191)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainFilter.doFilter(FilterChainFilter.java:88)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(ProfilingFilter.java:125)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainFilter.doFilter(FilterChainFilter.java:88)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.EncodingFilter.doFilter(EncodingFilter.java:52)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainFilter.doFilter(FilterChainFilter.java:88)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.AppConsistencyFilter.doFilter(AppConsistencyFilter.java:112)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainFilter.doFilter(FilterChainFilter.java:88)
at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocation.java:315)
at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(CacheInvocation.java:135)
at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleRequest(HttpRequest.java:246)
at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleConnection(HttpRequest.java:164)
at com.caucho.server.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:139)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

Resin 2.1.8 (built Thu Mar 6 11:50:23 PST 2003)