I had the same problem using FOP 0.20.5rc. Upgrading to FOP 0.20.5rc2 is a possible workaround - although it does seem to disable hyphenation altogether, and results in a lot of these errors output from FOP:
[java] [ERROR] Couldn't find hyphenation pattern en
[java] [ERROR] Error building hyphenation tree for language en
I had a look at the .fo output from the stylesheets (and Saxon), and it seems to be OK. Not that I know too much about XSL-FO, but there is a hyphenation-character attribute which seems to be set appropriately, _provided_ that the file is opened as UTF-8. Maybe the earlier FOP release is getting confused as to the file encoding, and not opening it as UTF-8? Maybe it's fixed in 0.20.5rc2, and the above error is a separate problem?
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> From: Ian Moor [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 11:08 AM
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> Subject: [docbook-apps] Hyphenation character
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> I am using xalan and fop, I have moved to stylesheet 1.61
> and now the hyphens printed in
> both pdf and ps as #
> Ian Moor
> Ian W Moor Department of Computing,
> Imperial College.
> 180 Queensgate
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