Hi Greg,
Actually, it all worked except the encoding string
needed to be "ISO-8859-1"
Thanks again!
Mike
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> Hi Greg,
>
> > If that's what's
> > happening, it's working
> > by accident.
>
> Right, because the windows encoding is close to
> 8859-1
> but not exactly the same...
>
> >
> > What you probably need to do is specify 8859-1 as
> > the output text-encoding,
> > rather than relying on the platform-dependent
> > default.
>
>
> Ok...
>
> >
> > Exactly how to do that, I can't tell you, because
> > you don't say how you're
> > outputting your HTML documents.
>
> >
> > If you're using FileOutputStream already, then
> what
> > methods do you write
> > the HTML text with?
>
> not using it...using as follows..
>
>
> filenameStr --> FileWriter --> PrintWriter --> HTML
> OUTPUT
>
> >
> > If you're using FileWriter, then switch to a
> > FileOutputStream within an
> > OutputStreamWriter where you specify the
> > text-encoding as "8859-1". See
> > the constructors of OutputStreamWriter for
> details.
>
> Ok, so I'll chain it like so...
>
> filenameStr --> FileOutputStream -->
> OutputStreamWriter --> PrintWriter --> HTML OUTPUT
>
> .. using the charset string as "8859-1" as the arg
> to
> OuputStreamWriter.
>
>
> >
> >
> > >What is the Mac encoding charset type? If there
> is
> > >one, Can it be interpreted using safari?
> >
> > If I understand those questions correctly, the
> > answers are:
> > 1) in Java, "file.encoding" is MacRoman by
> default
> > on Mac OS X.
> > 2) yes, if you specify "charset=MacRoman" in the
> > HTML.
> >
> > Not sure how helpful those answers are, because I
> > think they're missing the
> > basic point that you should take control of the
> > text-encoding written to
> > the file, rather than relying on the
> > platform-dependent default.
>
>
> I think you are right. Lot's of THANKS for the
> feedback I'll give those suggestions a try.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
>
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