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Re: Download of text file, charset problem on Mac
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Re: Download of text file, charset problem on Mac


  • Subject: Re: Download of text file, charset problem on Mac
  • From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:09:28 -0700

My first though is that there may not be a MacRoman encoding available on Solaris. Is it throwing an exception (UnsupportedEncodingException)? Have you tried using UTF-8 instead of MacRoman?

Chuck


On Apr 27, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Jon Kleiser wrote:

I have a WO application where the user may generate and download a text file. (This now works quite fine, thanks to Chuck Hill's reply to my previous mail.) The probkem now is to get the right character set in these files, when downloaded by a Mac OS X client. (The Norwegian alphabet has six characters æøåÆØÅ that always represent a problem.) The code I use to detect and convert now looks like the lines below, but the result (when viewed by TextEdit, or BBEdit 7) is not what it should be.

public static String convertStringForRequest(String s, WORequest request) {
String userAgent = request.headerForKey("User-Agent");
if ((userAgent != null) && (userAgent.indexOf("Mac") >= 0)) {
try {
return new String(s.getBytes(), "MacRoman");
} catch (Exception e) {
...
}
}
return s;
}


When I run the application on my developer Mac, and download to the same, this method's input and output strings are equal. When I run the application on our Solaris box, and download to my Mac, the input and output strings are different. In both cases, the resulting character set is wrong.
Most of the text in the generated text file is coming straight from an Oracle database. We have no problems with the Norwegian characters in the web pages.
I'll appreciate any ideas on how to handle this charset stuff.


Jon Kleiser
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