Re: SWT app UTF8 problem

Subject: Re: SWT app UTF8 problem
From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:45:57 -0700
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sam wrote:

That's actually the quick and clean solution! Nowadays, in almost all cases you want to ensure a full UTF-8 workflow with all byte stream input/output; unfortunately, on most platforms that isn't the default in Java, which means that you need to always specify UTF-8 on every class/constructor that has a 'character encoding' parameter.

Some time ago, I started using a class that had factory methods, one for each type of object (FileReader, InputStreamReader, String, etc.) that relied on a text-encoding. Then everywhere you'd use the constructor that specifies an encoding name, call the factory method in the utility class. This falls under Don't Repeat Yourself. It also makes it easy to change the encoding in one place, such as for testing. It's too bad the "file.encoding" property doesn't cut it, but it is what it is.

There's only about a half-dozen or so different factory methods that any app actually uses. And new ones aren't that hard to write.

  -- GG

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