diff --git a/src/xalanc/XMLSupport/XalanOtherEncodingWriter.hpp b/src/xalanc/XMLSupport/XalanOtherEncodingWriter.hpp
index 8741cea49..def1d5d8e 100644
--- a/src/xalanc/XMLSupport/XalanOtherEncodingWriter.hpp
+++ b/src/xalanc/XMLSupport/XalanOtherEncodingWriter.hpp
@@ -320,13 +320,13 @@ class XalanOtherEncodingWriter : public XalanFormatterWriter
                 {
                     XalanUnicodeChar    value = decodeUTF16SurrogatePair(ch, theChars[i+1],  getMemoryManager());
 
-                    if (this->m_isPresentable(value))
+                    if (m_predicate(value))
                     {
                         write(value);
                     }
                     else
                     {
-                        this->writeNumberedEntityReference(value);
+                        writeNumericCharacterReference(value);
                     }
 
                     ++i;