re:Java and UTF

From: Pierre Lewis ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jul 02 1997 - 14:47:00 EDT


In message "re:Java and UTF", '[email protected]'
writes:

>�Java has the power to manipulate the bytes between dozens of encodings
>�quite easily (although it took myself and several colleagues a while).
>�Try this nifty function. It says "read these bytes as encoding
>�<inEnc> and output the bytes in encoding <outEnc>." Encodings can be
>�Big5, UTF-8 (the standard one...not the goofy Java one), MacThai, or
>�whatever is supported by the JDK.

Proven worng. So it is possible. Good.

Still a bit strange to find UTF-8 (a transform, ie. an algorithm)
besides MacThai (an encoding, ie. a table). But, semantic subtleties
aside, it's there.

In message "Re: MES as an ISO standard?", '[email protected]'
writes (on variable names in Unicode):

>�It's not a low priority for Japanese programmers.

Fair 'nuff. So be it.

>�Oh, yeah. Input. Okay, here it is in both directions:

Good, so now you may work on the linker :-)!

>�TO INPUT UTF-8 TEXT:
>�
>�try
>�{
>� BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
>� new InputStreamReader(
>� new FileInputStream("Sample.sjis"), "UTF8"));
>�
>� inputStr = in.readLine();
>�}

Strange. The book I was referring to (Java in a nutshell, 2nd)
doesn't show this last constructor. What JDK is that in? Is the
book already out-of-date (I bought it just 2 days ago).

Thanks to Erik and Glen for the pointers,
Pierre



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