[jdom-interest] non-ascii characters in xml document

[Dave Neuendorf]

The problem originated when I was using the default UTF-8. The quote
characters were not properly represented in the xml file, which is why I
decided to try ISO-8859-1 encoding (which didn't help). The JTextArea into
which the text had been pasted was properly displaying the quote characters
until the text was read back in from xml, at which point the bogus characters
from the xml were displayed.

Jason Hunter wrote:

> > I'm working on an application, in which the user is allowed to paste
> > text into a JTextArea. The text can include "curly" single and double
> > quotes, and presumably other non-ascii characters. When the text is
> > written to an xml file from a jdom Document, each such character is
> > replaced in the file with some other non-ascii character. I tried
> > changing the encoding from the default UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, but the
> > result is that now the replacement character is always a question mark.
>
> If you're using UTF-8, all Unicode characters can and will be
> represented and you'll have them nicely encoded in UTF-8 format.  If it
> shows up as a ? for you, it's probably because your viewer isn't
> recognizing that the characters are encoded as UTF-8, or it doesn't have
> the glyph necessary to display the chars.
>
> -jh-