[jdom-interest] special characters problem

[Pramodh Peddi]

Hi Manish,
Thanks for responding! Did you have exactly the same problem? i.e, Working
fine on windows but not on Unix?

Can you tell me exactly what should be done in Java to do this. I am using
Java1.4.1. Should i mention the file.encoding in JAVA_OPTS? If so, what
should I mention. And is this what all I should do to make it work? Is the
way I build the document ok?

Sorry for asking too many questions:-)!

You are right, I am using InpustStreams to read external data.

Thanks,
pramodh.
----- Original Message -----
From: <manish.sharan at divlogic.com>
To: "Pramodh Peddi" <peddip at contextmedia.com>
Cc: <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] special characters problem


> I recently solved this kind of problem by enforcing charset encoding all
theb
> way from JVM "file.encoding" option to using the charset encoding name
whenever
> using any InputStreams to read external data .
>
> The windows and Unix/Linux behaviorial difference with respect to sepcial
> characters is due to  the differing default charset encoding.
>
> Hope this helps.
> -manish
>
>
> Quoting Pramodh Peddi <peddip at contextmedia.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am using JDOM Beta 8 version for XML parsing. we are happening to have
lot
> > of special characters (like registered marks, copyright symbols, trade
> > marks, and other many funky chars). After building the document, the
parser
> > is converting the characters into "?" characters. This is what I am
doing to
> > build the document:
> >
> >
****************************************************************************
> > ************
> > // Method to return a Document object given an xml String
> >
> > public Document getDocumentfromString(String xmlString)
> >
> > throws Exception {
> >
> > Document schemaDoc = null;
> >
> > SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder(false);
> >
> > String resultingXML = null;
> >
> > if(!StringUtils.isEmpty(xmlString)){
> >
> >
> > try{
> >
> > schemaDoc =
> >
> > builder.build(
> >
> > new StringReader(xmlString));
> >
> > }catch(JDOMException jdomex){
> >
> > throw new Exception("Document could not be built: " + jdomex);
> >
> > }
> >
> > }else{
> >
> > log.info("xmlString is null");
> >
> > }
> >
> > return schemaDoc;
> >
> > }
> >
> >
****************************************************************************
> > ****
> >
> > It is working fine on Windows (2000) machine, but spitting "?" symbols
in
> > place of special chars on UNIX machines.
> >
> > I used to use schemaDoc = builder.build(new
> > java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes()));
> >
> > to build the document in place of StringReader, but it was changing the
> > encoding and throwing exception saying the special
> >
> > chars don't belong to UTF-8. So, i changed it to StringReader - which
> > doesn't throw exceptions but, converts the special chars to "?".
> >
> > I also tried using builder.build(new
> > java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes(
> >
> > "UTF-8"
> >
> > )));
> >
> > . But that din't help too.
> >
> >
> >
> > Again, "?" are occuring only in UNIX machines, but works fine on Windows
> > machines.
> >
> >
> >
> > I would appreciate any help.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> > pramodh.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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