LOCALE = "english-usa"; SORT_ORDER_LOCALE = "english-usa"; thanks for the hint so for German..? LOCALE = "german-ger"; SORT_ORDER_LOCALE = "german-ger";

"But here I find nothing that gives me any context to clarify exactly what might be the supported algorithms. Reading between the lines though; "must be recognized by a JCE provider available at runtime" - I would suspect that your encrypt / salt etc would not be a 'JCE Provider' - what you are doing is not standard, is…