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Re: Converting ASCII input to UTF-8 for displaying

On Mar 29, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:

Anyway, since all the strings are stored as ASCII, they are sent to the
GUI over the socket as ASCII. When these dynamic strings are displayed
in the GUI running on a Mac, the special characters come out garbled
because the Mac assumes that they are UTF-8. Any of the static strings
that are compiled into the jar display fine so it is just these strings
that come from the C/C++ backend that are garbled.

I'm confused

I don't think Mac assumes here something special:
it uses default encoding; you have to setup appropriate encoding for java strings
use for example Latin 1-3 encodings for: they are cover codes 0 - 255 interval
(http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/iso.mspx sorry for MS link :-) )

it's weird that windows/linux behave differently I'd think you should have exactly the same problem
with windows/linux JVM unless they have different default encodings, but you don't have to trust
to default encodings anyway I'd explicitly set encoding for any input streams


Dmitry Markman
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