Mike wrote:
>I have a client that's attempting to output Swedish
>text characters that he's entered into my app's
>interface, to HTML documents.
>
>Unfortunately the HTML encoding that is supported
>(<meta http-equiv="content-type"
>content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">) is currently
>not transforming his native language charset
>correctly.
>
>All of this is working fine on the PC. The PC Java
>environment outputs the data in the correct encoding
>type so that it can be interpreted by the iso-8859-1
>enabled browser.
It's probably working on the PC because 8859-1 is often the default
text-encoding on Windows. Java's default text-encoding is specified as the
"file.encoding" system property. If that's what's happening, it's working
by accident.
What you probably need to do is specify 8859-1 as the output text-encoding,
rather than relying on the platform-dependent default.
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 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.
If you're using FileOutputStream already, then what methods do you write
the HTML text with?
Or are you using a String method that converts text chars to bytes, and
writing the bytes?
If you're using String.toBytes(), then switch to the method that takes a
text-encoding arg, and specify "8859-1".
>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.
-- GG
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