[jdom-interest] Problems with encoding="utf-8"

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:23 AM -0600 3/24/03, David Parker wrote:


The "mattext" node will have text from such languages as: Russian, 
Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Swahili ... that need the extended ASCII 
set.
JDOM is converting the "utf-8" encoded characters to ?.

I very much doubt that. Much more likely, your system does not have 
the proper fonts to display those characters, or alternately the 
software you're using does not understand UTF-8.
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