[jdom-interest] how to parse UTF-8 encoded files with JDOM b7 and Xerces

[Aron Kramlik]

Thanks Jason and Alexey.  It was my fault, the parsing was working fine
as you both said but the XMLOutputter's encoding attribute was not being
explicitly set to UTF-8 and so it was defaulting I guess to the
file.encoding
system property.  So now it works and thank you both.

Cheers,
Aron Kramlik.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Hunter" <jhunter at servlets.com>
To: "Aron Kramlik" <aron.kramlik at itouch.com.au>
Cc: <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] how to parse UTF-8 encoded files with JDOM b7
and Xerces


> > I have an XML file that is encoded in UTF-8 and it has a mixture of
English
> > and Cantonese characters.  When I parse the file using SAXParser I don't
> > get the real Cantonese characters back but rather just questions marks
(?).
> >
> > If I set the file.encoding option of the JVM to be UTF-8 it works fine.
>
> Does your XML declaration include: encoding="UTF-8"?
>
> I believe UTF-8 is assumed if the encoding is missing from the decl, but
> the fact that changing file.encoding fixes the problem makes me think
> perhaps your parser isn't following that rule and is instead using the
> JVM's default charset.
>
> -jh-
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