[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter and utf-8

[Chris Curvey]

Jason, you were spot-on with your original suggestion. I had made the change 
to my code, but had forgotten to JAR it up. (After 20 years of programming, 
why do I still make mistakes like that?)

Thanks a million.

On 5/20/05, Jason Hunter <jhunter at xquery.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, just be aware the renderedDoc string there is going to be a
> character String not a byte stream, so you can't look at it for
> diagnostics about how the encoding's going.
> 
> The out.output(doc, output) looks like the proper way to send UTF-8
> characters. I don't recall if there were any issues with beta7 about
> this. Beta7 was long, long ago. You may also want to specify the
> encoding in the HTTP headers you're sending so the receiver will know
> how to parse the bytes.
> 
> -jh-
> 
> Chris Curvey wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to Jason & Paul for their responses. I tried Jason's suggestion
> > for my example, and it works great. (And I realize that this question
> > is increasingly off-topic, please forgive me.)
> >
> > In my real-world problem, I'm not writing to System.out, I'm writing to
> > an output stream returned from an HttpsURLConnection. So I tried this:
> >
> > Document doc = getXML();
> > XMLOutputter out = new XMLOutputter();
> > out.setEncoding("UTF-8");
> > String renderedDoc = out.outputString(doc);
> >
> > // Construct the request headers
> > setupHeaders(theConnection, renderedDoc.length());
> >
> > // Send the request
> > OutputStream output = theConnection.getOutputStream();
> > out.output(doc, output);
> >
> > I don't have access to the server on the other end of that connection,
> > and the connection is encrypted, so I can't just put in a proxy server
> > to capture the stream to see what's really being sent.
> >
> > One more data point, which may or may not be important. I have to use
> > the Beta-7 version of JDOM, because it's distributed as part of my app
> > server, and putting jdom 1.0 earlier in the classpath causes the app
> > server to choke.
> >
> > Many, many thanks for any help.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > On 5/20/05, *Jason Hunter* <jhunter at xquery.com
> > <mailto:jhunter at xquery.com>> wrote:
> >
> > You're not actually outputting the file to a byte stream. You're
> > outputting it to a String, then printing the string using
> > System.out.println(). System.out is a PrintStream and per the
> > PrintStream Javadocs, "All characters printed by a PrintStream are
> > converted into bytes using the platform's default character encoding."
> >
> > Try this: out.output(doc, System.out);
> >
> > That way JDOM gets to control the bytes being output.
> >
> > -jh-
> >
> > Chris Curvey wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm having a little trouble figuring out utf-8 encoding with
> > JDom. The
> > > output from this sample program is returning a single hex value, \xc9
> > > for an E-acute, but according to this page
> > > http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00c9/index.htm, the
> > UTF-8
> > > encoding for E-acute should be a hex pair \xc3 and \x89. (\xc9
> > appears
> > > to be right value for UTF-16.)
> > >
> > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Or am I just misinterpreting
> > something?
> > >
> > > import org.jdom.Document;
> > > import org.jdom.Element;
> > > import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter ;
> > > import org.jdom.output.Format;
> > >
> > > class JdomTest
> > > {
> > > public static void main (String[] argv)
> > > {
> > > Document doc = new Document();
> > > Element element = new Element("foobar");
> > > element.setText("CLOISONNÉ");
> > > doc.addContent(element);
> > >
> > > Format format = Format.getPrettyFormat();
> > > format.setEncoding("UTF-8");
> > > XMLOutputter out = new XMLOutputter(format);
> > > System.out.println(out.outputString(doc));
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
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