Comments on: On bytes, chars, Strings, XML and Unicode

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:42:00 +0000

> which prints the all familiar “Héllo Wørld�?. This is a nice trick, and I am not completely sure how it works.

If you change the code to create a byte[] for the XML string ’s’ does it work like the first case. Because there may be some magic in the file encoding the the javac compiler sees. Namely that ‘Héllo Wørld’ is read by the complier using some default encoding (e.g. other then UTF-8), and magically transforming this to the correct UTF-16 representation.

From javac -encoding encoding Set the source file encoding name, such as EUCJIS/SJIS. If -encoding is not specified, the platform default converter is used.

By: James

James — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:24:30 +0000

Hi Nice article. Would you be interested in reposting this to JavaLobby – I think it would be useful there. Contact me if you’re interested and we can organise it James

By: Arjen Poutsma

Arjen Poutsma — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:09:07 +0000

Typo eradicated.

By: Iwein

Iwein — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:04:57 +0000

> String s = “Hëllo Wørld”; > xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(s))); > which prints the all familiar “Héllo Wørld�?.

Is that a typo or are we seeing more magic here?