diff -Nur commons-codec-1.3-src/src/test/org/apache/commons/codec/language/SoundexTest.java commons-codec-1.3-src_patched/src/test/org/apache/commons/codec/language/SoundexTest.java
--- commons-codec-1.3-src/src/test/org/apache/commons/codec/language/SoundexTest.java	2004-06-02 03:55:38.000000000 +0300
+++ commons-codec-1.3-src_patched/src/test/org/apache/commons/codec/language/SoundexTest.java	2008-09-26 00:00:42.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- * 
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
  * 
  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  * 
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import junit.framework.Test;
 import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
 import org.apache.commons.codec.EncoderException;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.StringEncoder;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.StringEncoderAbstractTest;
@@ -340,30 +342,39 @@
     /**
      * Fancy characters are not mapped by the default US mapping.
      * 
-     * http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29080
+     * http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29080
      */
     public void testUsMappingOWithDiaeresis() {
         assertEquals("O000", this.getEncoder().encode("o"));
+        if ( Character.isLetter('ö') ) {
         try {
             assertEquals("Ö000", this.getEncoder().encode("ö"));
             fail("Expected IllegalArgumentException not thrown");
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
             // expected
         }
+        } else {
+            assertEquals("", this.getEncoder().encode("ö"));
+        }
     }
 
     /**
      * Fancy characters are not mapped by the default US mapping.
      * 
-     * http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29080
+     * http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29080
      */
     public void testUsMappingEWithAcute() {
         assertEquals("E000", this.getEncoder().encode("e"));
+        if ( Character.isLetter('é') ) {
         try {
             assertEquals("É000", this.getEncoder().encode("é"));
             fail("Expected IllegalArgumentException not thrown");
         } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
             // expected
         }
+        } else {
+            assertEquals("", this.getEncoder().encode("é"));
     }
+    }
+    
 }